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Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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School Staff
Sorca Clarke
103. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the latest update on the pay negotiations deal between her Department and a union (details supplied) in respect of increased salaries and additional leave entitlements for school caretakers; when her Department will publish the study her Department had committed to as a means to understanding the current working patterns as well as the terms and conditions of work for school caretakers; when her Department will implement a similar pay and conditions package for grant-funded school caretakers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16337/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Departmental Programmes
Sorca Clarke
104. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Education the engagements her Department has had with the Department of Transport in relation to the safe routes to school programme. [16254/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Matt Carthy
105. Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Education if she will deliver a special school in County Monaghan; if so, the proposed location of any such proposal; and the timeframe for delivery of same. [16300/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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School Accommodation
Alan Dillon
106. Deputy Alan Dillon asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the additional accommodation project aimed at supporting a school (details supplied) given that it is 52 months since the project was approved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16359/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Violet-Anne Wynne
107. Deputy Violet-Anne Wynne asked the Minister for Education her views on the provision of SET hours for the 2024-2025 academic year (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16468/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Schools Building Projects
Pauline Tully
108. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Education the actions she is taking to resolve the issue of the delays in school capital projects in County Cavan which has led to a number of secondary schools becoming oversubscribed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16466/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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School Curriculum
Gary Gannon
109. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on considerations regarding potential reforms to the Leaving Certificate, given the concerns raised by teachers at this year's annual teachers conferences. [16491/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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School Enrolments
Réada Cronin
110. Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Education her Department’s precise plans to guarantee a secondary school place for each child in the north Kildare area, not only in first year in September 2024, but in second year given the forced reliance of some children on home tuition and of boarding on others in the current school year (first year), with a negative impact on the child and family in all such cases due to oversubscription locally. [16267/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Schools Building Projects
Jennifer Murnane O'Connor
111. Deputy Jennifer Murnane O'Connor asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on school building projects in Carlow; how many new schools are in planning stage; how many new school builds have started; how many have yet to be tendered for; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16157/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Ruairí Ó Murchú
112. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education if she will provide an update on the progress being made to open additional autism units for children for September 2024 at primary and second level in County Louth; the number of places she expects to be available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16357/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Claire Kerrane
113. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Education if she is aware of an issue of lack of special class places in an area (details supplied); how she will ensure places are made available; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15955/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Disadvantaged Status
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
114. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will reverse the proposed cut in the primary summer programme grant and restore the grants from the proposed €30 per child to €45 per child. [16341/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Ruairí Ó Murchú
115. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Education if she will provide details of the review process that is underway for any school that is not happy with its SET hours allocation; the number of reviews received and the outcome of those reviews; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16358/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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School Enrolments
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
116. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of children due to start a new school in September in the Dublin area who have yet to be offered a place in a local school; and the efforts her Department is making to ensure that every child will have a place in time. [16340/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Disadvantaged Status
Aodhán Ó Ríordáin
117. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the reason the DEIS summer programme scheme has been changed in order that literacy and numeracy inclusion camps must be run concurrently. [16342/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Schools Building Projects
Darren O'Rourke
118. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on the building programme for a school (details supplied); when construction will commence; when the school will be notified with an update; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16228/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Scoileanna Lán-Ghaeilge
Aengus Ó Snodaigh
119. D'fhiafraigh Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh den Aire Oideachais an bhfuil sé fós mar sprioc ag a Roinn dúbailt a dhéanamh ar líon na ndaltaí ag freastal ar scoileanna lán-Ghaeilge de réir an Chláir Rialtais agus cén uair a bheidh sé sin sroichte. [16351/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Martin Kenny
120. Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Education if she will provide some clarity on the removal of funding for an ASD unit in a Leitrim school (details supplied) after physical accommodation was unable to be sourced. [16371/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Gary Gannon
121. Deputy Gary Gannon asked the Minister for Education to explain the adaptation of standardised testing to dictate the assignment of SET hours, which prevents early intervention as testing does not begin until second class. [16495/24]
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
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School Enrolments
Catherine Connolly
122. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 115 of 13 February 2024, the status of the analysis underway by her Department into the number of additional first-year secondary school places required in Galway city and county in the academic year starting in September 2024; the steps her Department is taking to reduce the current enrolment pressures; the details of the engagement her Department has had to date in 2024 with affected schools in Galway city and county in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16314/24]