Parliamentary questions

182. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on the requirements from the Dublin and Dún Laoghaire Education Training Board for ETB staff members to be present when community groups use school halls or sports facilities outside of school hours; if this policy can be reviewed; if the cost associated with this can be reviewed to make it more accessible to community grou…

183. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether her Department has issued guidance, instructions, policies, protocols, circulars or other documents to schools concerning the transmission, sharing, storage, retention, disclosure or other processing of students' personal data and special category personal data, including diagnostic, disability-related, psychological a…

184. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the information, guidance or explanations made available by her Department or schools to students and parents regarding who may have access to special category personal data provided to schools; the safeguards, security measures and confidentiality requirements that apply to such information; and the measures in place to ensur…

185. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the State Examinations Commission issues any guidance, instructions, policies, protocols, circulars, retention schedules or other documents to schools in connection with the provision of State Examination results, records of results and result transcripts, including provisional and final results; whether any such docum…

186. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the information, guidance or explanations made available by the State Examinations Commission, by her Department or schools to students and parents regarding the purposes for which State Examination results, provisional results and records of results provided to schools may subsequently be retained, used, disclosed, shared or …

187. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a decision will be made on an appeal by schools (details supplied) in regard to the DEIS Plus scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48218/26]

188. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding a school building project (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48252/26]

189. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps she will take to resolve delays with the schools summer programme, including in a particular school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48255/26]

190. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Education and Youth if an additional SNA will be provided to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48330/26]

191. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the Programme for Government commitment regarding a reduction of the pupil teacher ratio at primary school level to 19:1 over the term; if timeframes are available as to when this will be achieved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48341/26]

192. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the outcome of his most recent discussions at EU level in relation to the introduction of social media restrictions for children which are urgently needed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48356/26]

193. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport to outline the proposals to advance the introduction of social media restrictions for children during the Irish Presidency of the EU; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48357/26]

194. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the latest EPA report on water quality; the measures his Department is taking to improve water quality in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47915/26]

195. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if his attention has been drawn to the concerns (details supplied) of the substantial sums spent to improve Ireland's water quality yet despite this no progress is being made; the measures he is taking to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47916/26]

196. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocated to improving Ireland’s water quality by his Department broken down by programme allocation, CapEx and OpEx in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47917/26]

197. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding his Department provided to the water advisory body in each of the years 2020 to date in 2026, in tabular form. [47918/26]

198. Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the amount of derelict sites levies collected and outstanding in Kerry County Council in each of the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; the reason for the significant difference between the amount of unpaid levies reported at the end of 2023 and the amount reported for 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47…

199. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he acknowledges that the revision of I.S. 465 strengthens the position of homeowners whose applications were downgraded by the Housing Agency and who have consistently argued that such downgrade decisions were legally and scientifically flawed; and if he will confirm that all downgrade appeals will c…

200. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will confirm that the defective concrete blocks appeals boards will continue to hear and determine outstanding downgrade appeals without interruption or delay, given that all downgrade appeals determined to date have resulted in the Housing Agency's decisions being annulled; that those appeals wer…

201. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if, in light of the fact that all downgrade appeals heard to date have resulted in the Housing Agency's decisions being annulled, he will direct that cases returned to the Housing Agency for re-assessment be dealt with immediately and as a priority; given that some homeowners have been engaged with the …

202. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the criteria used by his Department, and by any Government housing support schemes under its remit, to determine whether a dwelling is classified as a modular home or modular housing unit; whether homes constructed using modern methods of construction that incorporate traditional brick and mortar elements may …

203. Deputy Noel McCarthy asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the current criteria for acceptance of residential properties to the historic thatch grant scheme; the maximum funding available to households under the scheme; when he expects the scheme to reopen for applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48089/26]

204. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applicants who have availed of the €24,100 lump sum payment under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme, by year, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48266/26]

205. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage the number of applicants who have availed of the €1,500 annual payment under the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48267/26]

206. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to provide the total level of expenditure for the cessation of turf cutting compensation scheme since its establishment; to provide an annual breakdown of this expenditure from its establishment to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48268/26]