School Funding

451. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the procedures involved in the calculation of the ancillary services grant for primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5442/26]

452. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there are plans to review the ancillary services grant for schools scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5443/26]

453. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she is aware of the case of a school (details supplied) that has received a total of €25 through the ancillary services grant over the past two years; if she will investigate how such an inadequate amount could be awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5444/26]

504. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding that is available to a school (details supplied) to allow their U19 girls basketball team take part in the World Schools Basketball Championships in Valencia, Spain, in November 2026. [5895/26]

512. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a school (details supplied) will be awarded the additional funding required to complete a project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5948/26]

524. Deputy Mark Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the grant schemes that schools can apply for to develop their sporting and recreational facilities; the application process for these; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6054/26]

525. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current procedures used in terms of enrolment figures to allocate capitation grant funding to primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6072/26]

526. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is a contingency fund regarding capitation grants for schools whose enrolment increases by more than 20% within a single academic year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6073/26]

527. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans to amend the current procedures of basing a schools capitation grant on the school's enrolment figures from 18 months previously; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6074/26]

528. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if procedures are in place to expedite the transition for a school (details supplied) of its capitation grant from its current allocation based on its 2024 enrolment figures of 62 to the school's September 2025 enrolment figures of 103; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6075/26]

551. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth the funding available to a special class at post-primary level; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6269/26]

553. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a refusal of a grant for a school can be reconsidered (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6278/26]

100. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Youth when a decision will be made on application for additional funding for a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4565/26]

104. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there is a contingency fund available for schools whose enrolment increases by more than 20% within a single academic year in relation the Capitation Grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4629/26]

105. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Education and Youth the reason schools are paid capitation on the previous enrolment from 18 months ago (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4630/26]

106. Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department will expedite the transition to September 2025 enrolment figures for a school (details supplied) to immediately prevent a deficit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4631/26]

111. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education and Youth to review correspondence (details supplied); if she will address the funding concerns outlined; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4722/26]

113. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth if consideration will be given to the request for changes to the system of calculating capitation payments in respect of primary schools with particular reference to increased enrolments as outlined in correspondence (details supplied) highlighting the pressures on a school with a considerable increase in enrolment and no additio…

114. Deputy Brendan Smith asked the Minister for Education and Youth the proposals, if any, she has to amend the system for calculating capitation payments, taking into account the additional pressures on schools where there have been increases in enrolments but no additional payments; if she accepts that the present system needs to be updated considering population increase and population movemen…

334. Deputy Niamh Smyth asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will review correspondence (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3057/26]

352. Deputy Robert O'Donoghue asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide further funding for a school (details supplied) to provide resources for an additional class in the coming school year of 2026/2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3244/26]

49. Deputy Brian Brennan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the status of the emergency works application for a school (details supplied); when a decision will be made; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2529/26]

1241. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the current status of the multiple applications by a school (details supplied) under the emergency works scheme; when decisions will be issued in each case as the works are urgently needed by the school and its pupils; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1850/26]

1272. Deputy John Clendennen asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the work ongoing to identify a method of standardising the reduction to the ancillary-related grants for the longer term, where school secretaries are being paid on the Department’s payroll; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2408/26]

453. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will review the funding and resource supports available to a school (details supplied) in light of the significant infrastructural, demographic and pedagogical challenges faced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [73480/25]