Parliamentary questions

314. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is a timetable for rolling out DEIS+ in Dublin south central, including confirmation of funding allocations and implementation dates, in tabular form. [40307/25]

315. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of additional resource teaching posts allocated to DEIS schools in Dublin south central for the upcoming academic year, broken down by school, in tabular form. [40308/25]

316. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures in place to eliminate voluntary parent contributions in all schools and ensure full equitable funding. [40309/25]

317. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if funding is being ring-fenced for school-based mental health provision in schools in Dublin south central, broken down by school, in tabular form. [40311/25]

318. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is an emergency energy support fund for DEIS schools facing sharply increased utility costs and how schools can apply. [40316/25]

319. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason there is no mention of the school completion programme in her most recent publication Education Indicators for Ireland, July 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40325/25]

320. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans on introducing changes to the Irish-language requirements for PME courses to allow access to increased numbers and in turn more teachers to deal with current shortages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40331/25]

321. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional nurture room to every DEIS school with a special educational class. [40347/25]

322. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first and full year cost of providing an additional nurture room in one school. [40348/25]

323. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of nurture rooms there are in schools across the State. [40349/25]

324. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS primary schools that do not currently have one. [40350/25]

325. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of providing a nurture room to all DEIS secondary schools that do not currently have one. [40351/25]

326. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the emergency supports available for schools adjacent to IPAS and Ukrainian refugees that accommodate high percentages of such children and may also separately feature highly Pobal HP deprivation Index data given the often transient and interrupted nature of such children's educational experiences, not their traumatic lif…

327. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth if additional EAL supports can be made available to Gaelscoileanna in non-Gaeltacht areas that taken in high proportions of children whose first language is neither Irish or English, given that junior and senior infants are normally educated in an immersive Irish language environment (details supplied); and if she will ma…

328. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth when schools that applied for DEIS status in March 2022 will be permitted to reapply, given the increases in population reflected in the Census, the local pressures such as accommodating large numbers of IPAS and Ukrainian students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40377/25]

329. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the additional supports and allowances that can be made to schools experiencing unpredictable mid-year enrolment and withdrawal, such as a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40378/25]

330. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of detailed correspondence received from a school (details supplied) regarding the need for DEIS status to be formally reviewed under the current DEIS identification model, using anonymised, PPSN-linked data already available to her Department, or an equivalent emergency assessment-based provision amountin…

331. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on the proposal to introduce an additional secondary school bus service for students attending a school (details supplied); if the current capacity has been reviewed; and the timeline for when a decision on additional transport provision will be made, in light of ongoing demand in the area. [40383/25]

332. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 329 and 331 of 24 June 2025, to the Minister for Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, which confirmed that responsibility for analysing collapsed or re-run procurement competitions rests with individual contracting authorities, if her Department has es…

333. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a list of all Public-Private Partnership projects under her remit, including project name, contract value, and start/end date since 2010; and to confirm whether any projects have been subject to cost overruns, renegotiation or early termination since 2010. [40412/25]

334. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether applications to transfer initial teaching licences from overseas to the Teaching Council can be accepted (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40468/25]

335. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the way in which the recently announced changes around contracts of indefinite duration for teachers will differ from the current system for the treatment of contracts of indefinite duration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40470/25]

336. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a project at a school will proceed to the next stage (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40474/25]

337. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a project for a school will proceed to the next stage (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40475/25]

338. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth when construction work will commence on a building project for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40476/25]