Parliamentary questions

96. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education the number of notifications received by the NCSE from parents and guardians by the 1 February 2025 deadline pursuant to her Department’s circular 0080/2024 by county, and by category of need, in tabular form. [3830/25]

97. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the emerging situation in Dungarvan, County Waterford where the families of 22 children have received notice that they cannot avail of a special school place; if she will commit to finding an urgent solution to secure a school space suitable to their individual educational and care needs; if she will…

98. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if she will give very serious consideration to the development of a new build school premises for a school (details supplied) to accommodate the growing demand for mild, moderate and severe spaces in Waterford, and parts of East Cork and South Tipperary; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3832/25]

99. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if she is aware that due to an inability of her Department to provide certainty to the principal and board of management of a school (details supplied) regarding delivery of a modular unit, the school has been unable to proceed with plans to open a much-needed ASD class in time for September 2025, and instead have been forced to postp…

100. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Conor D. McGuinness den Aire Oideachais cad iad na pleananna atá aici chun dul i ngleic leis an ngéarchéim atá ann maidir le múinteoirí le Gaeilge a earcú chun freastal ar earnáil an oideachais Gaeilge – idir bhunscoileanna agus mheánscoileanna; agus an ndéanfaidh sí ráiteas ina thaobh. [3834/25]

101. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Education to examine the case of an autistic child (details supplied) urgently in need of a school place in a primary school. [3849/25]

102. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Education to provide a progress update on a school building project (details supplied); to itemise the activities undertaken in 2024, and to outline the capital funding allocated to it. [3910/25]

103. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education the position regarding an application for additional school accommodation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3916/25]

104. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education what steps her Department will take to ensure a child (details supplied) who is on a waiting list for their local special school can access an appropriate special school space in September. [3919/25]

105. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education what steps will be taken to ensure that a child (details supplied), who is on a waiting list for their local special school, can access an appropriate special school space this coming September. [3921/25]

106. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education what steps will be taken to ensure that a child (details supplied), who is on a waiting list for their local special school, can access an appropriate special school space this coming September. [3922/25]

107. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education what steps will be taken to ensure that a child (details supplied), who is on a waiting list for their local special school, can access an appropriate special school space this coming September. [3924/25]

108. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education if she and an appropriate Minister of State will join me in urgently meeting a delegation of parents whose children have been placed on a waiting list for special school spaces in Dungarvan, County Waterford. [3925/25]

404. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Education the number of requests to her Department that were granted for various matters (details supplied); the number of such requests that have been refused; and the grounds on which they have were refused. [2499/25]

405. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Education for an update on the emergency works application of a school (details supplied). [2167/25]

406. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education if an SNA post for a school (details supplied) will be filled as a matter of urgency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2181/25]

407. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education the number of primary and post primary schools in north Offaly that were forced to close during the severe cold weather the country experienced from 6 to 10 January 2025, in tabular form. [2186/25]

408. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education for an update on the third special class at a school (details supplied). [2190/25]

409. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Education the timeline for the new school (details supplied) where children, staff and teachers are finding it difficult to continue using prefabs indefinitely and in particular in cold weather conditions. [2191/25]

410. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure a child (details supplied) has a secondary school place in September 2025. [2271/25]

411. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 292 of 15 October 2024, when a person (details supplied) will receive an assessment for dyslexia; the reason the assigned psychologist has not meet with the parent to outline how the pupil can be supported, as indicated in the previous PQ response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2292/25…

412. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Education her position on single-sex primary and post-primary schools; if she is taking steps to encourage single-sex schools to become co-educational schools or if such changes in status are solely school-led; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2346/25]

413. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the planned phasing out of the ‘nearest school’ rule for the school transport scheme; a timeline for its abolishment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2353/25]

414. Deputy Holly Cairns asked the Minister for Education whether her attention has been drawn to the calls from organisations (details supplied) for an urgent review of the reporting mechanism for the use of restraint in schools; whether she would consider instigating an independent child protection review of the guidelines and the reporting mechanism on the use of seclusion and restraint in scho…

415. Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education for an update on the position in relation to school caretakers; the timeframe for offers to be made to school caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2358/25]