264. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will consider reclassifying schools (details supplied) as DEIS Band 1, given the needs of students at the schools; if she will agree to a review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23321/26]
Topics / Schools Administration
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsSchools Administration
70 questions from 38 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 13 October 2026.
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70 written, 0 oral
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| January 2025 | 1 |
| February 2025 | 1 |
| March 2025 | 0 |
| April 2025 | 8 |
| May 2025 | 8 |
| June 2025 | 0 |
| July 2025 | 2 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 1 |
| October 2025 | 1 |
| November 2025 | 4 |
| December 2025 | 3 |
| January 2026 | 5 |
| February 2026 | 3 |
| March 2026 | 8 |
| April 2026 | 1 |
| May 2026 | 11 |
| June 2026 | 6 |
| July 2026 | 4 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 1 |
| October 2026 | 2 |
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97. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide additional administrative support and protected leadership time for teaching principals (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22668/26]
98. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide a leadership and management recognition mechanism for principals to reflect the management of special needs assistants, bus escorts, secretaries, caretakers, and cluster teacher posts in base schools, given the significant workload involved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22669/26]
99. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will provide explicit time allocations and administrative support to base schools for the management of cluster teacher posts, including the associated inter-school coordination, scheduling, and reporting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22670/26]
102. Deputy Paul Lawless asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will ring-fence administrative time during the school day for principals to complete child protection oversight reports, maintain records of concerns raised, and complete statutory annual reviews and mandatory reports, so that these obligations do not displace teaching time; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22673/26]
293. Deputy Albert Dolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth if a school (details supplied) would be eligible for additional administrative support in light of the fact that the school is currently operating across two separate sites and has a large student population; and if she will outline the criteria used to determine eligibility for increased administrative hours or posts in such circumstances; and if sh…
118. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on the revised Code of Behaviour Guidelines for all schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17254/26]
403. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education and Youth for an update on a school (details supplied) seeking a permanent roll number; if the decision to refuse this can be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16210/26]
360. Deputy Malcolm Byrne asked the Minister for Education and Youth the steps or research undertaken by her Department to assess or reduce the administrative burden on school principals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13777/26]
701. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education and Youth the timeframe for the roll-out of DEIS Plus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12835/26]
702. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education and Youth the criteria being used to choose schools to be included in DEIS Plus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12836/26]
458. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth the position regarding a review of procedures for schools to have maintenance work carried out in order to minimise the administrative requirements placed on schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5502/26]
459. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on the merits of creating a section within her Department that carries out small scale repairs to school buildings, similar to ones used by many local authorities across the country to avoid the need to tender for private companies for relatively small jobs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5503/26]
460. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth her views on whether an unreasonable burden is placed on schools seeking repairs for relatively small repairs such as broken windows and minor leaks; the actions she will take to ensure that this process is as streamlined as possible; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5504/26]
461. Deputy Barry Ward asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her attention has been drawn to the frustration of school principals in relation to the administrative burden they are put under regarding small repairs to their school building; if she will engage with representative groups to address these complaints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5505/26]
359. Deputy Aidan Farrelly asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of schools that reported closures, outside of planned closures such as end of term, bank holidays and so on, in each of the years 2024 and 2025; and the number of school days lost in each of those years as a result. [3275/26]
427. Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Education and Youth the estimated number of administrative hours that schools spend each year on reasonable accommodations in the certificate examinations applications and assistive technology applications; if she will provide these estimates in tabular form; if she will consider introducing a high trust model similar to the Irish Exemption system to streamline this w…
116. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of Gaelscoileanna which have closed in each of the past ten years. [70362/25]
223. Deputy Ann Graves asked the Minister for Education and Youth the role of the board of management regarding holding principals to account in secondary schools. [67434/25]
323. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if her Department has analysed the additional administrative and operational pressures on small rural schools with multigrade classes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67142/25]
324. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she intends to increase principal release days for teaching principals in small schools to support administration and management demands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67143/25]
325. Deputy Michael Murphy asked the Minister for Education and Youth if she will outline measures in place to support the long-term viability of small rural schools facing enrolment, staffing and funding pressures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [67144/25]
665. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education and Youth the number of children on waiting lists for enrolment in primary and post primary schools per county. [58015/25]
73. Deputy Carol Nolan asked the Minister for Education and Youth whether the beginning of the new school year is governed in legislation; whether the issue is governed solely by guidelines issued by her Department; to give a summary of these guidelines for primary and secondary level schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52355/25]
497. Deputy Cormac Devlin asked the Minister for Education and Youth to publish the evaluation findings and lessons learned from the small schools pilot project; the number and location of participating schools; if she will bring forward a plan and costing to expand the model nationally in 2026, including cluster governance templates, additional administration days for teaching principals, ICT supports, and transport…