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Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I want to start my concluding remarks by saying that some of the utterances from Deputy Danny Healy-Rae were ignorant, ill-informed, insensitive, offensive and disgusting. He should withdraw them. They represent the height of ignorance. The debate, otherwise, was important. It is incredibly frustrating. I say that on my behalf and on behalf of anyone with an interest in this matter....

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I mentioned FUSS Ireland and the Equality in Education group, but across the length and breadth of this State, parents are fighting for their children. That should be leveraged. The Minister of State should work with them and deliver for them.

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I will, thanks.

Special Education School Places: Motion [Private Members] (17 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: I move: That Dáil Éireann: notes that: — the right to education is a fundamental right for every child, as enshrined in the Irish Constitution and international conventions; — despite two Dáil motions in 2025 calling for the provision of appropriate school places for every child with additional needs in their locality, the Government has rejected these...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 741. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is aware of the variation in compensation levels for Board members (details supplied); and if he intends to ensure pay equality for board members sitting on these interview panels. [46479/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 954. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she intends to increase the compensation of LMETB board members sitting on interview panels from €130 to €260, in line with those sitting on community school interview boards. [46480/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 823. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects a school (details supplied) to move to construction phase of works. [45521/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 824. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to visit the United Arab Emirates to attract Irish trained teachers to return home and work in the Irish Educational System. [45522/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Refurbishment (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 825. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when her Department expects refurbishment works at a school (details supplied) to be completed. [45523/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary and post primary schools in County Offaly that received funding for works under emergency works scheme in the 2023 to 2024 and the 2024 to 2025 school term, in tabular form. [45524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Funding (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 827. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the capital funding her Department provided to a school (details supplied) in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [45525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 828. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers on the substitute supply panel in Carlow at present and the number in 2020, in tabular form. [45526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 956. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if newly qualified teachers are entitled to payment during the school holidays if they are covering a teacher on sick leave indefinitely and employed on a year-by-year basis. [46484/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 957. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if teachers who are employed on a year-by-year basis, or a fixed contract, to cover a teacher who is on sick leave have to sign on for jobseeker's benefit during the holidays. [46485/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Appointments Service (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 958. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the interview process for permanent posts in schools to an independent public appointment board or service. [46486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 963. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who left school without a junior certificate in each of the years between 2019 and 2024, inclusive and as a percentage of total number of students sitting and eligible for the junior certificate, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46561/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 964. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children who left school with a junior certificate but without a leaving certificate in each of the years between 2019 and 2024 inclusive and as a percentage of total number of students sitting and eligible for the leaving certificate, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46562/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Meetings (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1079. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when he last met with the director general of TG4; the issues discussed; when is he next scheduled to meet the director general of TG4. [45528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1163. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide clarity for local councils on the issue of self-employed people wishing to put their name on the social housing list in relation to the discretionary requirement from individual councils to request a minimum of two years' accounts with an auditor’s report and a notice of assessment and/or...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (8 Sep 2025)

Darren O'Rourke: 1164. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason Meath County Council is permitted the use of its own discretion when requesting a self-employed person, seeking to apply to join the social housing list to provide a submission of two years' accounts with an auditor’s report and a notice of assessment and/or self-assessment acknowledgement for the...