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Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Funding
Catherine Connolly
62. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated full year cost of increasing the capitation grant at primary and secondary level by 5%. [24126/24]
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Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Catherine Connolly
63. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio by 1 point at primary level. [24127/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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Pupil-Teacher Ratio
Catherine Connolly
64. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of reducing the pupil teacher ratio by 1 point at second level. [24128/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Catherine Connolly
65. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the projected demand for school places in mainstream primary schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2024. [24129/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Catherine Connolly
66. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the projected demand for school places in mainstream secondary schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2024. [24130/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Catherine Connolly
67. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the projected demand for school places in special schools for pupils with special educational needs for the school year commencing September 2024. [24131/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Catherine Connolly
68. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of establishing a special class in a mainstream school for students with special educational needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24132/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Catherine Connolly
69. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the estimated cost of each additional place for a child with special educational needs in a special school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24133/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Catherine Connolly
70. Deputy Catherine Connolly asked the Minister for Education the timeline for the operation of the Special Education Appeals Board; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24134/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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Educational Disadvantage
Thomas Pringle
71. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the projected cost of extending the Junior Certificate School Programme Demonstration Library Project staffed by a qualified librarian to all DEIS schools [24147/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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Educational Disadvantage
Thomas Pringle
72. Deputy Thomas Pringle asked the Minister for Education the projected timeline for delivering on the 2005 commitment to extend the Junior Certificate School Programme Demonstration Library Project staffed by a qualified librarian to all DEIS schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24148/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Fergus O'Dowd
73. Deputy Fergus O'Dowd asked the Minister for Education if she will respond to specific concerns raised by persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24149/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Transport
Joe Carey
74. Deputy Joe Carey asked the Minister for Education if she will guarantee a school bus service as opposed to a community based local link service (details supplied) which is recommended under the NTA Route 343 Amendment Proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24150/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Staff
Mairéad Farrell
75. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education to provide the full list of available teaching positions in secondary level schools in Galway; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24156/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Staff
Mairéad Farrell
76. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Education if there if there is a facility where qualified teachers can register with her Department to be contacted for recruitment purposes if a vacancy arises; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24157/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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Special Educational Needs
Bernard Durkan
77. Deputy Bernard J. Durkan asked the Minister for Education the reason a request to sanction the summer programme for one week for eight classes was refused in the case of a person (details supplied); if this school’s case can be examined at the earliest opportunity, with a view to ensuring a consensus to run at least a week’s programme given the importance of the school to local children with additional needs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24164/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Enrolments
Denise Mitchell
78. Deputy Denise Mitchell asked the Minister for Education the status of the provision of a new class for a school (details supplied). [24167/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Transport
Peadar Tóibín
79. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 24 April 2024, if she will reply to an email submitted to her office (details supplied) regarding school transport in County Meath; and the actions taken to secure school transport for the students concerned commencing from September 2024. [24171/24]
Wed, 29 May 2024
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School Staff
Paul Murphy
80. Deputy Paul Murphy asked the Minister for Education if cleaning staff employed directly by schools should be paid for 7 June 2024, even if their school is being used as a polling station on that day. [24172/24]
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Special Educational Needs
Pádraig Mac Lochlainn
81. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if her Department will work with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to establish an ASD unit, when their change of status to a co-educational school proceeds soon; and if she and her Department are aware that the school has a long history of innovation in special education, and with an administrative principal and specialist trained SEN staff (to masters level) already in place and two classrooms immediately available for use as ASD units, alongside their spacious grounds and large sports hall, they are in an ideal position to establish an ASD unit. [24183/24]