Ceisteanna Parlaiminte

General Practitioner Services

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

784. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Health the action that his Department can take to ensure that patients without medical cards can access general practitioner services if they can show that they have received refusals from three or more GP services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35834/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

12. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if there is a shortfall in applications from SNAs for suitable summer provision jobs; if any review of remuneration has been conducted to evaluate whether increased pay would fill the summer provision levels; if she will provide the relevant per-hour pay rates for teachers, student teachers and SNAs providing summer provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34766/22]

State Examinations

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

41. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will review the criteria for qualification for deferred examinations to include students who suffer a serious and urgent medical emergency during an examination for conditions such as epilepsy, appendicitis and heart issues. [34764/22]

Educational Disadvantage

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

89. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will ensure the primary schools in north Drogheda referred to in the Drogheda implementation plan report are given formal DEIS band one status in the current appeals process; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34767/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

91. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will reform the application process for a review of the SNA allocation for schools to remove language threatening potential downgrade of SNA numbers to schools making an application for a review given that it may discourage schools with additional needs particularly developing schools with a review. [34768/22]

State Examinations

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

95. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if she will recognise that the stipulations for deferred examination requiring that a parent or guardian needs to sign a request for a deferred sitting on the day of the examination and that a medical report signed by a consultant needs to be uploaded within four days are not always practical in a life-threatening emergency and need to be reviewed; and if she will contact the State Examinations Commission to make it aware of the issue. [34765/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

92. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of deaf and hard of hearing children in each year in mainstream classes in primary and secondary schools. [34710/22]

Educational Disadvantage

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

95. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if the total State support for a second level DEIS school is the combination of State grant and budget for the running cost of the school and funding under the DEIS programme; if the derived total State support per DEIS student is consequently less for such a student in a voluntary secondary school compared with the total State support for their peer attending an education and training board or community and comprehensive school in the same area; the respective levels of such combined State support per student in DEIS schools in the different second level school sectors; the measures her Department would suggest to address the disparity in total State funding levels per student for DEIS students in the voluntary school sector; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34757/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

100. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of deaf and hard of hearing children in each year in deaf schools and units for deaf and hard of hearing children in mainstream schools. [34848/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

101. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of deaf and hard of hearing young people who sat the leaving certificate examination in each of the past five years. [34849/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

102. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of deaf and hard of hearing children in second, fourth and sixth class who completed STen tests in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. [34850/22]

Special Educational Needs

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

103. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the average results achieved by deaf and hard of hearing children in second, fourth and sixth class in STen tests in the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years. [34851/22]

Ukraine War

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

129. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will consider putting in place a supplementary vetting or registration process for families that have made informal arrangements to take in Ukrainian or other refugees outside of the Departmental and Red Cross formal process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34724/22]

Irish Aid

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

449. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs when the Rapid Response Corps Panel will be open for new applicants; if the existing panel members will have to reapply when applications for a new panel are opened; if not, if they will be automatically enrolled if they wish; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32489/22]

Scoileanna DEIS

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

540. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of DEIS primary schools that are due to lose teaching staff for the 2022-2023 academic year. [31881/22]

Scoileanna DEIS

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

541. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of DEIS primary schools that will lose teaching staff for the 2022-2023 academic year due to being one pupil short of the relevant threshold. [31882/22]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

542. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the total number of appeals lodged by primary schools that are due to lose teaching staff for the 2022-2023 academic year; and the number of successful appeals. [31883/22]

State Examinations

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

558. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education when the State certificates promised to students whose junior certificate exams were cancelled in 2020 will be issued; the reason for the two-year delay in issuing them; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32100/22]

School Staff

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

144. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education if her attention has been drawn to the impact that the pandemic has had on the ability of substitute teachers to qualify for the supplementary panel on the basis of hours worked due to their loss of 65 available days during the school closure in 2020; if she will consider awarding a proportion of the 65 days for which schools were closed to substitute teachers for increment and panel-qualification purposes based on the proportion of available days worked; if she will alternatively consider reducing the threshold for increments and qualification from 183 days to 123 days for that year only in order to assist this group which has already suffered financially in the pandemic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31233/22]

School Attendance

Aodhán Ó Ríordáin

1030. Deputy Aodhán Ó Ríordáin asked the Minister for Education the number of children currently on reduced timetables who have been notified to her Department under the new guidelines; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30400/22]