Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

Special Educational Needs

Jim O'Callaghan

347. Deputy Jim O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education the total number of special classes in 2023-2024; the provisional allocation for special classes for 2024-2025, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19336/24]

Special Educational Needs

Francis Noel Duffy

348. Deputy Francis Noel Duffy asked the Minister for Education further to Parliamentary Question No. 312 of 23 April 2024, if she will provide an update on the school application (details supplied) for an ASD unit considering the application was submitted in July 2022; when it is expected that a judgement will be given on the application; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19337/24]

Grant Payments

Seán Sherlock

349. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Education when the ancillary services grant and ICT digital strategy grants will be paid; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19342/24]

Local Authorities

Catherine Murphy

350. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Education if she will provide the amount of grant-aid returned and or surrendered to her Department, by local authority in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, to include the heading of which it was intended for. [19357/24]

Schools Building Projects

Joe Flaherty

351. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Education if she will direct Department officials to meet with a school (details supplied) and their architect for their new build in order to resolve outstanding issues. [19373/24]

Special Educational Needs

Joe Flaherty

352. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Education if exceptional teaching posts are still available for special schools. [19374/24]

Special Educational Needs

Joe Flaherty

353. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Education if she will consider an exceptional teaching post for a school (details supplied). [19375/24]

Special Educational Needs

Joe Flaherty

354. Deputy Joe Flaherty asked the Minister for Education if she will examine changing the requirements to provide substitute teaching cover in special schools. [19376/24]

School Textbooks

Colm Burke

355. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Education if there are plans to include private schools under the free books scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19389/24]

School Facilities

Michael Healy-Rae

356. Deputy Michael Healy-Rae asked the Minister for Education the action he plans to take to ensure that there is equity in standards of laboratory facilities and laboratory resources as well as access to laboratory technicians in those schools where no laboratory technicians are available and in which sub-standard laboratories and lack of laboratory resources exist (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19404/24]

School Staff

Peadar Tóibín

357. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Education when a psychologist will be appointed by the National Educational Psychological Service, NEPS, to a school (details supplied); and if she can provide an update to the school. [19411/24]

Schools Building Projects

Kathleen Funchion

358. Deputy Kathleen Funchion asked the Minister for Education to provide an update on school extension plans that were submitted to her Department for a school in County Kilkenny (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19416/24]

School Costs

Pádraig O'Sullivan

359. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education if consideration will be given to supporting schools with rising insurance costs as a result of the construction of modular buildings as in the case of a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19432/24]

School Costs

Pádraig O'Sullivan

360. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Education if funding streams are available to a school struggling with increased insurance costs (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19433/24]

School Textbooks

Michael Fitzmaurice

361. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Education the reason schools under the education and training boards, ETB, will be required to purchase junior cycle text books directly from the central national framework leaving small/medium sized book shops in the local areas unable to quote and win business having previously supplied families in the past; if she will consider allowing these small/medium businesses to quote for these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19435/24]

Schools Building Projects

Niall Collins

362. Deputy Niall Collins asked the Minister for Education if a recently approved school building project (details supplied) can be expedited; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19437/24]

School Funding

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

363. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will review the decision not to grant a school (details supplied) funding under the emergency works scheme. [19462/24]

Schools Building Projects

Pádraig Mac Lochlainn

364. Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Education if she will meet with the board of management of a school (details supplied) to discuss their serious concerns at the failure of her Department to consider inclusion of the school in the forthcoming school capital building programme. [19463/24]

Schools Building Projects

Brian Leddin

365. Deputy Brian Leddin asked the Minister for Education the status of a project (details supplied) under the School Building Programme; the reason for delay; the expected timeframe for the next stages of the capital project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19464/24]

Schools Administration

Cian O'Callaghan

366. Deputy Cian O'Callaghan asked the Minister for Education if the guidelines on the use of school buildings outside of school hours, or the governance manual for primary school 2023-2027, prohibits the provision of sibling hour and afterschool facilities in a school building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19486/24]