477. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the rules regarding secondary schools giving priority or allocating a set amount of school places to relatives of past pupils; and whether these rules apply to fee paying schools. [73637/26]
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478. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of school transport drivers who ceased operating services upon reaching the age of 70 years in each of the past five years; whether Bus Éireann has assessed the impact of these retirements on the availability of school transport services and driver recruitment; and if she will consider extending to drivers of minibuses, medium buses and l…
479. Deputy Eamon Scanlon asked the Minister for Education and Youth the evidence, safety data and recommendations arising from the Road Safety Authority review of upper age limits for school transport drivers that informed Bus Éireann's decision to retain the maximum age of 70 years for drivers of minibuses, medium buses and large school buses. [73659/26]
480. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will clarify the historical anomaly whereby schools (details supplied), both DEIS Urban Band 1 schools, are required to share a home school community liaison (HSCL) coordinator while comparable junior and senior school pairs in Dublin 15 have a dedicated coordinator per school; the objective criteria under which separate HSCL allocations were g…
481. Deputy Micheál Carrigy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider establishing a mechanism within the school transport scheme to allow families to access in-principle eligibility information prior to enrolling their children in a post-primary school; if she is aware that school enrolments typically take place late in the preceding year (details supplied); if a forward-looking process will be…
482. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to examine the case of a person (details supplied) who has not yet been provided with school transport, despite their application for school transport being approved back in January. [73752/26]
483. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the expected timeline for a decision; and, subject to approval, the provision of funding for the proposed extension for a school (details supplied). [73765/26]
484. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of an accommodation application for a school (details supplied). [73764/26]
485. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children in Waterford who require specialist placements for September 2027 based on NCSE data. [73775/26]
486. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of special class places expected to be available in Waterford for the 2027-2028 school year according to NCSE data. [73776/26]
487. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of additional ASD classes or special school places planned for Waterford for the school year 2027-2028, in the event of a shortfall between available spaces and numbers requiring a specialist placement; and a timeline of the delivery of same. [73777/26]
488. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding a proposal for a school (details supplied). [73787/26]
489. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to issues regarding the transparency of recruitment and interview processes for primary school teaching positions; and if her Department has carried out work to increase transparency in the recruitment process for primary school teachers. [73881/26]
490. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason rural schools are allocated significantly fewer resources, purely because of the label “DEIS Rural” (details supplied). [73809/26]
491. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will provide an update on correspondence acknowledged on 14 January 2020 concerning an individual (details supplied); if records relating to their participation in the Metalwork Teacher Training Course from 1970 to 1972 can be made available. [73860/26]
492. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Youth the guidance that exists for parents in the event of a change of patronage of one of two linked schools while a transitional admissions arrangement is in place; and the account her Department would expect to be taken of families who have a binding allocation under such an arrangement. [74388/26]
493. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth the additional special classes being planned or developed in the county Louth area for 2027; when parents will receive confirmation of new places available; and the supports available to families who have contacted the SENO but are still waiting for a response and have been unable to secure a special school place for their child. [73941/26]
494. Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of primary schools that have contacted her Department regarding a change of school ethos, language status, or co-educational/single-sex status since completion of the national survey on school patronage, including the current status of each request by county, in tabular form; to outline the process applicable to schools seeking such c…
495. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the engagement that has taken place with survivor groups regarding implementation of the agreement reached on 10 November 2025; the frequency of updates being provided; and if she will publish a progress report on delivery of the commitments. [74461/26]
496. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the average cost per student for insurance cover with a company (details supplied) of the 304 ETB schools and 187 other schools. [74494/26]
497. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether any discretionary mechanism exists whereby a school that does not fall within the current staffing appeal criteria may seek a review of a teacher allocation decision based on exceptional circumstances, including serving families residing in an IPAS accommodation centre and a women's refuge, experiencing sustained enrolment growth, an…
498. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth if consideration will be given to the level of additional educational needs within a school (details supplied) when determining its staffing allocation. [74491/26]
499. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to commitments made to survivors of Industrial and Reformatory Schools, when the promised health supports and services will be operational; the nature of those services; and if a dedicated point of contact has been established for survivors seeking assistance. [74457/26]
500. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures that are in place to ensure that teacher allocation decisions adequately take account of schools located in rapidly expanding communities with significant levels of new housing development; and if enrolment growth occurring immediately after the annual staffing cut-off date can be considered as part of staffing reviews. [74490/2…
501. Deputy Paul Nicholas Gogarty asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will urgently review the decision to reduce the mainstream teaching allocation of a school (details supplied). [74489/26]