104. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a school (details supplied) will be included in increased funding for a home school liaison from September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31006/26]
Parliamentary questions
Questions
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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Department names as the record prints them. Some changed in June 2025.
All 20 departments
| Department | Questions | Oral | Written |
|---|---|---|---|
| Health | 28,099 | 145 | 27,954 |
| Education | 14,289 | 145 | 14,144 |
| Transport | 11,442 | 153 | 11,289 |
| Justice | 10,062 | 135 | 9,927 |
| Housing | 9,227 | 160 | 9,067 |
| Children | 8,729 | 142 | 8,587 |
| Social | 6,094 | 148 | 5,946 |
| Finance | 5,938 | 153 | 5,785 |
| Agriculture | 4,932 | 136 | 4,796 |
| Enterprise | 4,082 | 152 | 3,930 |
| Climate | 3,950 | 130 | 3,820 |
| Foreign | 3,893 | 190 | 3,703 |
| Public Expenditure | 3,760 | 167 | 3,593 |
| Further and Higher Education | 3,460 | 140 | 3,320 |
| Taoiseach | 2,687 | 1,513 | 1,174 |
| Defence | 2,604 | 179 | 2,425 |
| Culture | 2,499 | 147 | 2,352 |
| Rural | 2,375 | 140 | 2,235 |
| Environment | 1,029 | 26 | 1,003 |
| Tourism | 703 | 31 | 672 |
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105. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a school (details supplied) will be included in increased funding for special education from September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31007/26]
106. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth the rationale for increasing the school bus fees for 2026, while simultaneously shortening the payment window, with parents now required to pay by 8 May, compared with early June last year; and the reason no instalment or phased payment system is available to support families during the ongoing cost-of-living pressures; and if she will make a stateme…
107. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide free period products in all secondary schools in Cork county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31010/26]
108. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will confirm the special needs allocation for a school (details supplied) for the forthcoming school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31014/26]
109. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 218 of 29 May 2025, if she will review correspondence (details supplied) and address the concerns raised; if the questions referred to therein will receive a response; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31017/26]
110. Deputy Naoise Ó Muirí asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is an appeals process for primary school students who cannot avail of a place in their desired school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31048/26]
111. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount spent on emergency works and ASA works in a school (details supplied), broken down per project, from 2014 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31055/26]
112. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount spent on emergency works and ASA works in a school (details supplied), broken down per project, from 2014 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31056/26]
113. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth the amount spent on emergency works and ASA works in a school (details supplied), broken down per project, from 2014 to date, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31057/26]
114. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether an application has been received by her Department for a new school building (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31059/26]
115. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on an application by a school (details supplied). [31061/26]
116. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been brought to the case of a student (details supplied); if she will investigate this matter further; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31065/26]
117. Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will expedite the six-ground appeal submitted for a refused home tuition application (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31097/26]
118. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether primary schools are permitted to receive and distribute unsolicited educational materials produced or funded by private industry actors; and if so, the guidance her Department provides to schools regarding the acceptance, use and presentation of such materials in the classroom; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31138/26]
119. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Youth the assessments, if any, undertaken by her Department of the factual accuracy, balance and educational suitability of materials distributed to primary schools by private or commercial entities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31139/26]
120. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department maintains a register, approval process or formal review mechanism for external organisations distributing educational resources directly to schools; and if not, whether she will consider introducing such a mechanism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31140/26]
121. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department was notified in advance of the distribution to primary schools of a publication (details supplied); whether her Department carried out, or requested, any assessment of its content prior to distribution; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31141/26]
122. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether she will commit to developing clear national guidelines for schools on the acceptance and use of externally produced educational resources, particularly where such resources relate to contested environmental or public policy issues; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31142/26]
123. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais agus Óige an méadóidh sí líon na n-áiteanna, nó an gcuirfidh sí maoiniú ar fáil do na coláistí ábhartha chun é sin a dhéanamh, chun a chinntiú gur féidir le haon mhac léinn a chomhlíonann na riachtanais iontrála do chúrsaí an Bhaitsiléara san Oideachas trí mheán na Gaeilge áit a fháil ar na cúrsaí seo; an aontaíonn an tAire go bhfuil ganntanas ollmhór múi…
124. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of one and two teacher schools that have been closed in each county for each of the past twenty years, in tabular form. [31148/26]
125. Deputy Conor D. McGuinness asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason for the decline in the number of one and two teacher schools from ten to five in Waterford over the past twenty years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31149/26]
126. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to urgently investigate the case of a school (details supplied) and allow for necessary and urgent emergency works; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31150/26]
127. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the school level data to be released shortly will include school level data for all multi-denominational schools and denominational schools; if she will publish the full percentage response from all parents, including parents of preschool children and parents of children in multi denominational schools to the question of whether denominati…
128. Deputy Keira Keogh asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1407 of 14 April 2026, when a decision will be made on the redesignation of a class (details supplied) [31174/26]