Parliamentary questions

649. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of students currently attending secondary schools within the Cabra-Phibsborough-Dublin 7 school planning area (SPA); the number of these students that reside within the same SPA; the number of students attending these schools who reside outside of the SPA; to provide a breakdown of the SPAs which these students are trave…

650. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of sixth-class students enrolled in several schools (details supplied) in each of the past five years, by school and by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30126/25]

651. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the projected number of junior-infant enrolments in the Cabra-Phibsborough-Dublin 7 school planning area in September 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, tabular form. [30127/25]

652. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to outline the data sources used by her Department to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional school accommodation is needed at primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30128/25]

653. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth how her Department uses child-benefit data to identify where the pressure for school places across the country will arise and where additional school accommodation is needed at primary and post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30129/25]

654. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide details on the demographic data required by her Department to determine whether an area experiencing significant new residential developments requires extending the capacity of existing school or schools or whether the provision of a new school or schools is required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3013…

655. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures her Department can take to provide a co-educational primary or post-primary school in an area where no such option currently exists for parents, even if demographic data does not indicate the need for a new school, given that the new criteria for establishing school entities require all new schools to be co-educational…

656. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide a breakdown of the reported 10% surplus of first-year places in the Cabra-Phibsborough-Dublin 7 school planning area for the 2024/2025 school year, by school, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30132/25]

657. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of first-year students in each post-primary school in the Cabra-Phibsborough-Dublin 7 school planning area in 2024/2025 versus capacity for each school, over the past five years, in tabular form. [30133/25]

658. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the provision for secondary school places that was made as per the plan (details supplied), following the increase in residential developments in the area over the past ten years and the 893 units due to be completed in 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30134/25]

659. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider providing a new co-educational secondary school in the Cabra/Phibsborough, D7 school planning area; whether current data available to the Department outlines a need for a new secondary school; to outline when her Department will next review the demand for school places in this area; and if she will make a statement on t…

660. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Education and Youth the expected timeline for the tender process and the commencement and completion of construction works in respect of a project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30192/25]

661. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will investigate the suitability of the Reading Recovery programme for those with dyslexia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30198/25]

662. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth if DEIS schools are obliged to implement the Reading Recovery programme for those behind with literacy skills; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30200/25]

663. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of a report (details supplied) in relation to the effectiveness of the Reading Recovery programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30201/25]

664. Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a new modular classroom which has been approved by her Department, will be in place for a Donegal school (details supplied). [30304/25]

665. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will examine the case of a person (details supplied) who is not permitted to continue teaching in special education due to his qualifications not being recognised by the teaching council; to outline what additional course he needs to complete to be able to continue teaching; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [303…

666. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated full year costs to recruit 50 additional WTE educational welfare officers. [30399/25]

667. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of your place your space projects currently operation in north Tipperary; and the number and job title of personnel employed in each of these projects, in tabular form. [30400/25]

668. Deputy Gillian Toole asked the Minister for Education and Youth the timeline for the roll out of supportive therapies art, drama, equine therapies, wellbeing supports and nurture room grants to name some to mainstream primary and secondary schools, notwithstanding the prioritisation of special schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30423/25]

669. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current position and the plans in place to allow persons aged 70 and over, subject to appropriate medical checks, to undertake school bus transport work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30461/25]

670. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated cost of increasing funding for Gaelscoileanna by 5%, 10%, and 20%, in tabular form. [30487/25]

671. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a response will issue to correspondence from a person (details supplied) and this Deputy regarding a child's special education school placement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30503/25]

672. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated first- and full-year cost of increasing the number of special needs teachers by 500, 1,000 and 1,500 respectively, in tabular form. [30504/25]

673. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the date on which ancillary grants were paid to schools and the amount in total, for 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the changes that have been made to the ancillary grant to take account of the changed status of secretaries but not caretakers, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30509/25]