326. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Education and Youth the measures she is taking to provide school places for students in Greystones, County Wicklow who do not have a secondary school place for the 2025.2026 academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27515/25]
Topics / School Enrolments
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsSchool Enrolments
308 questions from 75 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
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307 written, 1 oral
75
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Independents counted together
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| Month | Questions |
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| January 2025 | 11 |
| February 2025 | 18 |
| March 2025 | 17 |
| April 2025 | 10 |
| May 2025 | 12 |
| June 2025 | 13 |
| July 2025 | 21 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 2 |
| October 2025 | 5 |
| November 2025 | 25 |
| December 2025 | 21 |
| January 2026 | 27 |
| February 2026 | 29 |
| March 2026 | 14 |
| April 2026 | 17 |
| May 2026 | 17 |
| June 2026 | 15 |
| July 2026 | 21 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 9 |
| October 2026 | 4 |
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The questions
625. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of young people who currently do not have a secondary school place in Greystones for 2025-2026; and the plan of action to ensure that all will have a school place in their locality by September. [24495/25]
69. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education to provide assurances that an individual (details supplied) will receive an offer of a school place for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21340/25]
71. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education the frequency with which the school planning areas reviewed; when the most recent review took place; the alterations, if any were made during that review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21384/25]
85. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Education the consideration her Department is giving to the provision of a new co-educational secondary school in the Cabra-Phibsboro, D7 school planning area; if Census 2022 indicates there is a need for a new secondary school in this area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21673/25]
805. Deputy Shane Moynihan asked the Minister for Education the plans to introduce common enrolment systems to school planning areas in Dublin. [18912/25]
822. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Education for the number of students enrolled in various primary and post-primary schools (details supplied), and for a class-by-class breakdown of numbers for each, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18985/25]
236. Deputy Tom Brabazon asked the Minister for Education her plans to provide additional school places commensurate with planned buildings and population expansion in the Balgriffin, Portmarnock, Baldoyle, Clongriffin and Belmayne areas. [18292/25]
155. Deputy Catherine Ardagh asked the Minister for Education the number of children nationally, and specifically in Dublin, that will not have a school place this coming September; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16851/25]
416. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education the number of students that will be enrolled into the interim special school in County Monaghan in September 2025; if there is capacity at the site of that school to increase enrolment numbers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15562/25]
417. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education the number of expressions of interest seeking to secure a place for a child in the interim special school in County Monaghan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15563/25]
418. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education the process that will be applied to determine which students are enrolled in the interim special school in County Monaghan in the event that there are more eligible applicants than available spaces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15564/25]
233. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education if she will investigate a case (details supplied) where the practice of determining teaching staff numbers based on the enrolment figures from the year before is resulting in this school facing huge class sizes in the autumn of this year, putting undue pressure on staff and pupils alike; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14780/25]
234. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Education if she accepts the case made by the principal of a school (details supplied); when will her Department will make a determination on the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14781/25]
351. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to a shortage of primary school places in Dunshaughlin for September 2025 and that her Department has been notified of at least one patron body of their willingness to facilitate additional students if they have the teaching resources and physical space to do so; her plans to ensure additional capacity in Dunshaughlin for Sep…
388. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education the projected number of junior infant enrolments in County Kilkenny for September 2025 and 2026, in tabular form. [13912/25]
413. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education the number of enrolment applications in a school (details supplied) in each of the past five years, compared to the number of students enrolled in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14126/25]
426. Deputy John Brady asked the Minister for Education the number of students enrolled in 4th, 5th and 6th class in primary schools in the Wicklow county districts (details provided), in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14226/25]
559. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education the number of students enrolled in a school (details supplied) in each of the past five years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10761/25]
560. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education for the number of sixth class students enrolled in a school (details supplied) in each of the past five years, broken down per school and by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10762/25]
570. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will urgently intervene regarding the need for an additional junior infant class at a school (details supplied) for the 2025-26 school year, which is significantly overprescribed with a continuously growing catchment area; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10832/25]
632. Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Education if she will liaise with the SENO and NCSE with respect to finding a school place for the child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11357/25]
639. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education the number of children who availed of home tuition because of a lack of a suitable school place in Cork for the 2024-2025 school year. [11407/25]
679. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education the projected number of junior infant enrolments in Dublin 15 and in Dublin west in September 2025, 2026, 2027, 2028 and 2029, tabular form. [11807/25]
687. Deputy Emer Currie asked the Minister for Education if she will provide up-to-date statistics on the post-primary population in Dublin 15 across three school areas, Blanchardstown Village and West, Castleknock and Carpenterstown, and Mulhuddart Tyrrelstown, including the overall post-primary school population, school enrolment and school capacity figures, identifying the source of this information. [11825/25]