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TDs ask ministers questions to get answers on the record, most of them in writing. Here is every one asked in the 34th Dáil, by the department it went to and the subject heading it was filed under. How questions work

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Grace Boland Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Education
915. Deputy Grace Boland asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide details of any Transition Year or extracurricular initiatives aimed at increasing girls' exposure to and interest in STEM subjects; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46245/25]
Barry Ward Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1032. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider an update to the leaving certificate Portuguese curriculum and examination to facilitate Brazilian students who speak a Brazilian Portuguese dialect; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41182/25]
Barry Ward Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1033. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider allowing for Brazilian Portuguese to make up an equal part of the existing Portuguese leaving certificate curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41183/25]
Paul Nicholas Gogarty Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1069. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children requiring EAL supports per annum, since 2015, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41645/25]
Sorca Clarke Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1095. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current budget allocation for school-based mental health initiatives, including the Junior Cycle wellbeing programme, SPHE, and so on. [41786/25]
Cormac Devlin Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1212. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education and Youth the progress made in reforming the senior cycle curriculum; the subjects being prioritised for modernisation; how student, parent-guardian and teacher voices are being incorporated into the reform process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43384/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1258. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether he would be supportive of including Gaelic games on the primary school curriculum in order to give each child a chance to access and play our national sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43887/25]
Sinéad Gibney Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Education
1259. Deputy Sinéad Gibney asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether he would be supportive of including Gaelic games on the primary school curriculum in order to give each child a chance to access and play our national sports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43888/25]
Edward Timmins Oral 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
94. Deputy Edward Timmins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there are plans to review the transition year programme to include practical life skills as part of the compulsory requirement across all schools: personal legal rights, household management, personal finance, taxation and social welfare and the driver theory test; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40202/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 17 Jul 2025 · to Education
102. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on plans to roll out senior cycle redevelopment in light of the rejection of the implementation plan by an organisation (details supplied); the level of engagement and progress with the ASTI and other second level stakeholders since that ballot; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40115/25]
Claire Kerrane Written 15 Jul 2025 · to Education
504. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of students and parents concerns for changes to the senior cycle in science subjects especially, the actions she is taking; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39549/25]
Ryan O'Meara Written 10 Jul 2025 · to Education
213. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Education and Youth to advise on the process an author may undertake to get book published for inclusion in primary school curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38371/25]
Conor D McGuinness Written 3 Jul 2025 · to Education
241. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the national anthem, Amhrán na bhFiann, is included in the primary or post-primary curriculum; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36909/25]
Paul McAuliffe Written 25 Jun 2025 · to Education
94. Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of concerns (details supplied) in relation to imminent changes to the senior cycle; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34849/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 24 Jun 2025 · to Education
426. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures she is taking to ensure reasonable accommodations for standardised testing in primary schools, such as increased time for dyslexic children is taking place at the moment. [34145/25]
Darren O'Rourke Oral 12 Jun 2025 · to Education
87. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if, in light of the deep concern regarding, among other things, the resourcing of schools, training of teachers and impact of artificial intelligence on the validity and authenticity of additional assessment components, and the related recent vote of rejection by the ASTI union, she will pause her accelerated plan for senior cycle redevelopment and…
Richard O'Donoghue Written 12 Jun 2025 · to Education
89. Deputy Richard O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the recent publication of the new specification for the senior cycle engineering subject; and if she will commit to the introduction of a second additional assessment component (practical skills test) in senior-cycle engineering, given that 89% of engineering teachers are in favour of its introduction. [31421/2…
Darren O'Rourke Written 12 Jun 2025 · to Education
142. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will pause the introduction of senior-cycle redevelopment for all tranche 2 subjects, not just English and accounting, in order to allow for adequate preparation particularly relating to school resourcing, the impact of artificial intelligence and evaluation of additional assessment components; and if she will make a statement on the matter…
Peter 'Chap' Cleere Written 11 Jun 2025 · to Education
131. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the possibility of making the driving theory test a mandatory element of the transition year cycle programme will be investigated; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31104/25]
Jen Cummins Written 20 May 2025 · to Education
411. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the supports available to schools to implement the revised Junior Cycle digital literacy curriculum, including staff training and infrastructure grants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25140/25]
Darren O'Rourke Written 13 May 2025 · to Education
569. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on the comments made by Government colleagues regarding sacrament preparation outside of school time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23494/25]
Ciarán Ahern Written 7 May 2025 · to Education
177. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures her Department is taking to ensure that children in publicly funded schools are not required to attend religious instruction against the wishes of their parents, in line with the constitutional right to freedom of conscience and Article 44.2.4 of the Constitution; if she supports children's constitutional rights not to attend said religi…
Roderic O'Gorman Written 30 Apr 2025 · to Education
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]
John Connolly Written 29 Apr 2025 · to Education
767. Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Education the number of primary schools nationwide participating in the module say yes to languages, in the school year 2024-2025; if she will detail cumulatively the languages offered in each school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18702/25]
Barry Ward Written 29 Apr 2025 · to Education
861. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education the position regarding the number of schools that require students to take religion as a mandatory Junior Certificate subject, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19265/25]