Parliamentary questions

236. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education for an update on the development of a new school application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21982/25]

237. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure that a project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage without delay in view of the urgent need to have this much needed accommodation provided and also taking into account that this application has been ongoing for a considerable length of time and also the pressure on existing accommodation due to the continu…

238. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education the present status of an application for new facilities at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21998/25]

239. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will approve an application to facilitate further essential developments at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21999/25]

240. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on school transportation for a person (details supplied). [22008/25]

62. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education whether or not there is currently a budgetary constraint or recruitment freeze affecting the allocation and deployment of SNAs for the 2024/2025 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21313/25]

63. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education to clarify the role and remit of special educational needs organisers in the allocation of SNA hours/posts to schools, particularly in relation to recommendations for reduced timetables in the absence of appropriate supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21314/25]

64. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the discrepancy between student/teacher ratio criteria in junior and senior primary schools with DEIS Band 1 status (details supplied); if her office has received correspondence from a school principal that highlights a specific case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21315/25]

65. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [21324/25]

66. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [21325/25]

67. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [21326/25]

68. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [21327/25]

69. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education to provide assurances that an individual (details supplied) will receive an offer of a school place for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21340/25]

70. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education if a school (details supplied) has been provided with sufficient teaching resources to make transition year available for all students who wish to undertake it; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21363/25]

71. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education the frequency with which the school planning areas reviewed; when the most recent review took place; the alterations, if any were made during that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21384/25]

72. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education when a school project will be delivered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21393/25]

73. Deputy Willie O'Dea asked the Minister for Education if she received correspondence (details supplied); when it is proposed to issue a response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21399/25]

74. Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Education her plans to increase the number of visiting teachers to children who have significant hearing loss in primary schools in County Cork (details supplied). [21407/25]

75. Deputy Cathal Crowe asked the Minister for Education if she will apply some principle of proportionality so that the current cohort of Leaving Certificate students, to be examined in June 2025, are not unfairly disadvantaged due to the planned reduction in grade inflation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21434/25]

76. Deputy Alan Kelly asked the Minister for Education the amount of funding that has been provided to schools within Tipperary under the emergency works scheme in the years of 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [21458/25]

77. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education to clarify on reports that SENOs are approving an increase in allocations of SNAs in principle, but these supports cannot be put in place due to an insufficient budget; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21507/25]

78. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education for clarification on whether geographical areas have a quota in terms of SNA allocations in tabular form. [21508/25]

79. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education when the implementation of the recommendations of the Report of the Scoping Inquiry into Historical Sexual Abuse in Day and Boarding Schools Run by Religious Orders will happen; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21509/25]

80. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Education the number of spaces for children with additional needs in Monaghan; the plans to increase such; the timeframe to do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21590/25]

81. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education to investigate the urgent concerns of a school with respect to the failure of her Department to provide it with an ancillary grant (details supplied); if she will direct her Department to answer the questions repeatedly put to it by the school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21616/25]