School Staff

261. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Education and Youth if school secretaries will be given public service status; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27701/25]

267. Deputy Robert Troy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide an update on plans to regularise the status of school secretaries and caretakers; and if these employees will be included in her Department's pension scheme in the near future. [26781/25]

294. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on measures to introduce public sector status, revised salary and annual leave entitlements for school caretakers and secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27121/25]

300. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide the annual additional cost of providing pensions parity to school secretaries and caretakers, in line with the demands of a union (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27210/25]

306. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to allow school secretaries and school caretakers access to the public service pension scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27233/25]

338. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 461 of 20 May 2025, if she will provide an update specifically for school caretakers, not school secretaries; and the progress made on a survey which was undertaken by her Department to schools regarding caretakers, to ensure a similar improvements in pay and terms and conditions as achieved…

204. Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has conducted a review of the pension entitlements for all school secretaries and caretakers, given that the current legislative provisions do not afford them the same pension benefits as teachers and other staff who are directly employed by the Department. [26388/25]

205. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the criteria for schools to have a home school liaison officer; if she plans to provide for every second level school to have such an officer or to expand the criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26397/25]

206. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the criteria for the awarding of staff to support leaving certificate applied in second level schools, if she plans to expand the criteria; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26398/25]

221. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Education and Youth to urgently address the disparity faced by school secretaries and caretakers, who are directly paid by her Department but who are being denied a pension (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26527/25]

229. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education and Youth to examine the case for the retention for a further year of a teacher at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26574/25]

236. Deputy James O'Connor asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will reconsider awarding incremental credits to a special needs assistant who has been employed in local authority-owned facilities which were managed by a private company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26684/25]

47. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she plans to grant full public sector status to all school secretaries and caretakers; if so, the timeline for extending access to public service pay scales, pensions, and employment protections to these staff, who work alongside teachers and SNAs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26297/25]

53. Deputy Thomas Gould asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the classification of secretaries and caretakers as public sector workers. [26181/25]

60. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a limit has been placed by her Department on the hours allotted to schools for teacher employment; the amount of hours sanctioned for the school year 2024 – 2025; if there are plans to increase the provision of hours to schools for teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26270/25]

65. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will address the concerns raised in correspondence (details supplied) regarding caretaker and secretary pension provisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26285/25]

408. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth if there are plans to increase permanent teaching posts to address the over-reliance on temporary contracts in certain schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25137/25]

427. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to retain qualified teachers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25285/25]

428. Deputy Jen Cummins asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans for any additional funding and staffing resources that will be provided to support the expansion of the School Completion Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25286/25]

461. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education and Youth to provide an update on a pay deal for school caretakers, similar to that achieved for school secretaries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25596/25]

475. Deputy Pat Buckley asked the Minister for Education and Youth if urgent steps will be taken to address the continued lack of a proper pension scheme and the unequal terms and conditions under which school secretaries (details supplied) work compared to their colleagues, such as teachers and special needs assistants; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25721/25]

478. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Education and Youth to consider regarding secretaries and caretakers, who work side by side with teachers and SNAs in this country daily, to receive the same certainty of a pension on retirement and to receive fair wages; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25763/25]

480. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will support giving public sector status to all secretaries and caretakers in schools giving them the same access to protections and pensions as other workers in schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25800/25]

486. Deputy Joe Cooney asked the Minister for Education and Youth her plans to give public sector status for all secretaries and caretakers working in schools, to be given access to the same rights, the same certainty of a pension on retirement and salaries as the teachers and SNAs that they work alongside; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25844/25]

492. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on school secretaries and caretakers not receiving a State pension, given their wages are paid by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25883/25]