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Please note, the below PQs are filed chronologically, with the most recent at the bottom of the list

EDUCATION

RESOURCES IN SCHOOLS

Special Needs Assistants

• Special Needs Assistants
• Special Needs Assistants and ABA
• Determination of Number of Special Needs Assistants
• Criteria for appointing Special Needs Assistants
• Review of criteria for special needs assistants in schools
• Special Needs Assistants in Kildare
• Special Needs Assistants in Co. Monaghan
• Cutbacks in Special Needs Assistants
• Review of Special Needs Assistants
• Special Needs Assistants
• Cost of SNAs
• Special Needs Assistants withdrawn
• Special needs assistants and teachers
• Criteria used in allocating special needs hours
• Use of resource teaching hours
• Special needs assistants in Roscommon
• Special Needs Assistants in Donegal
• Audit of special needs assistants
• Audit of students with special needs
• Panel system for special needs assistants
• Entitlement to special needs assistants in primary schools
• Special Needs Assistants lost from September 2009
• Criteria for allocating special needs assistant hours
• Full requirement of special needs assistants
• Review of special needs assistants in schools
• Commitment to special needs assistants in revised programme for government
• Assessments to qualify for a special needs assistant
• Special needs assistant for children enrolled in the early childhood care and education scheme
• Rule that SNAs must have Junior Cert Irish
• Review of SNAs
• No. of special needs assistants
• Review of SNAs
• Number of special needs assistants employed in schools in County Clare
• Review of SNAs
• Review of SNAs
• Review of SNAs
• SNA allocations in schools
• Number of special needs assistants who have lost their jobs
• Right to children to a special needs assistant in pre-school
• Pilot scheme to allow schools the option to top up the social welfare income of special needs assistants who have been made redundant
• Number of pupils at primary and second level who have lost the services of a special needs assistant in the period from 1 September 2009 to 1 February 2010
• Education resources for children with a disability in Limerick
• SNA posts earmarked for removal
• Number of SNAs made redundant
• SNAs employed in Dublin 15 primary and secondary schools from 2006 to 2010
• Number of SNAs withdrawn from classrooms in 2010
• Status of Report from NCSE on SNAs
• SNAs made redundant in recent weeks
• Cuts to SNAs in Donegal
• Priority Questions: Review SNAs at school in Mayo
• Priority Questions: Consequence of cuts to SNAs
• Resource cuts to school in Dublin 24
• Numbers of Special Education Needs Organisers and applications for SNAs granted
• Cost of redundancies to SNAs
• SNAs employed in Co. Kildare in last 3 years
• NCSE Review into SNAs
• Number of SNAs cut in Dublin west
• Full-time SNA and Domiciliary Care Allowance
• SNA posts cut in Central Dublin

• Reduction of SNAs in light of Lisbon Charter of Fundamental Rights
• Independent Appeals Mechanism when SNA withdrawn
• Research on difference to children following withdrawal of SNA
• No. of Special Needs Teachers and SNAs at primary and secondary level around country
• Provision for extra SNAs and resource teachers
• Responsibility for Criteria for SNAs
• Number of children who have had SNA hours reduced or cut
• Reduction in SNA numbers
• Appeals received re reduction of SNAs
• Number of SNAs in Waterford
• Number of SNAs in Dublin
• SNAs in schools in Co. Clare
• Review the criteria for the appointment of SNAs
• Review of SNAs
• Appeals regarding SNAs
• No. of SNAs employed by Dept. in 2010-2011
• Support for SNAs who had their posts cut
• Review of Special Needs Assistants
• Policy on allocation of SNAs
• SNAs in Mayo
• SNA cuts a St. Senans in Enniscorthy
• Number of SNAs employed in primary, special and post-primary schools in Waterford city
• SNA cuts in school in Dublin 24
• Cutbacks in school in Dublin 24
• SNA cuts at school in Wexford
• Number of SNAs in Dublin city and county since 2005
• SNA reductions in 2011
• Number of SNAs withdrawn since NCSE review
• Response to SNA request for school in Dublin 24
• Result of audit of SNAs
• Impact of SNAs
• Questions to the Taoiseach: Cuts to education supports
• SNA allocation at school in Limerick
• Cap on special needs assistants
• Priority Questions: Cap on SNAs
• Cap on SNAs
• Number of SNAs working in 1996 compared to 2011
• Cutbacks in SNAs
• Loss of SNAs at school in Tallaght
• Policy on SNAs
• Maintaining number of SNAs
• Future allocation of SNAs
• If the qualification requirements for SNAs include junior certificate level Irish
• SNA and Resource teacher hours same as 2010/2011
• More cuts to teachers and SNAs
• Review of SNA cuts
• SNAs in Louth from 2007 to 2010
• Priority Question: Review allocation of SNAs
• Priority Question: Maintaining cap on SNAs
• Role of SNA
• SNA numbers 2009 vs. 2010
• Plans to ensure special needs assistant positions and resource hours are not cut from schools
• Panel of SNAs
• SNA cuts
• SNAs for school in Wexford
• Future of SNAs
• SNA cuts in Dublin
• Plans to ensure special needs assistant positions and resource hours are not cut from schools
• Priority Question: Closing date for applications for SNAs
• SNAs and Resource teaching hours in 2011/2012
• Job security for SNA
• Number of SNAs in Donegal
• Current situation regarding SNAs
• If SNAs are designated to a pupil or groups of pupils
• Children with Down syndrome and SNAs
• Using school inspectors to ensure SNAs are used correctly
• Loss of SNAs in Co. Cork
• Number of SNAs employed at each school in Monaghan
• Priority Questions: how decision is made to cut SNA hours
• Follow on from value for money review of SNAs
• Future provision of SNAs and resource teachers
• Findings of value for money review of SNAs
• Number of applications for SNAs that have been rejected
• Number of SNAs in Meath
• Allocation of SNAs in 2011-2012 school year
• Number of SNAs in Wicklow
• Number of SNAs in Meath
• Number of SNAs in Wicklow
• Findings of value for money review of SNAs
• SNAs in Dublin 22 and Donegal
• SNAs in Co. Cork
• Number of SNAs in Louth and east Meath
• SNAs in Carlow and Kilkenny
• Number of SNAs in fee-paying schools in Dublin
• Number of SNAs in Dublin Central
• When schools will receive SNA allocations
• Panel rights to SNAs
• List of SNAs on county basis
• SNA numbers if Dublin 5, Dublin 13 and Dublin 17 in 2011
• Allocation of SNAs in 2011
• SNA at a school in Cork
• SNA reduction at Cork school
• Panel for SNAs
• If SNA posts held in reserve are filled
• If a junior infant pupil can be assessed for SNA support for one year
• Total number of SNAs employed at present
• Allocation of remaining quota of SNAs
• Allocation of remaining SNA posts
• Annual cost of SNAs
• Communication of SNA Review
• Number of SNA posts cut
• Cost of SNAs since 2006
• Saving to Exchequer from SNA cuts
• Leaders Questions: SNA provision

Special Classes

• Number of classes for children with special needs
• Pupil-Teacher Ratio for pupils with an intellectual disability
• Special Needs Classes
• Special classes cuts
• Order of Business: Special Needs Classes cuts
• Order of Business: Special Needs Classes cuts
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to special education resources in Ballyfermot

• Special needs education cuts in Mayo, Dublin and Tipperary
• Special needs education cuts in Clare, Dublin south west and Galway
• Special needs education cuts in Clare and Dublin 5
• Special needs classes cuts
• Special needs classes cuts in Mayo
• Special needs classes cuts in Cork
• Restoration of special needs classes
• Priority Questions: Special Needs classes cuts
• Special Needs classes cuts

• Special Education Classes Cuts
• Cuts to special needs classes
• Cuts to special needs classes

• Cuts to special needs classes
• Review of special classes
• Shared Special Classes
• Special Needs classes cuts
• Plans for accommodating children affected by special classes cut
• Priority Questions: Special Classes Cuts
• Adjournment Debate: Special Classes in primary schools in Birr
• Audit of special needs services
• Special Needs Classes in Leitrim
• Leaders Question: Cuts to special needs classes
• Cuts to special classes
• Adjournment Debate: Special Classes cuts and St. Olivers N.S., Killarney
• Audit of students with special needs
• Appeal of decision to abolish special needs classes
• Special Units in mainstream schools
• Substitution cover for teachers of special classes
• Cuts to special classes
• Schools affected by special classes cuts
• Additional resources provided to schools that had special classes abolished in 2009
• Qualifying criteria for pupil enrolment in specific learning disability special classes

Special Education Needs Organisers (SENOS)

• Lack of SENO in Waterford
• Special Education Needs Organisers in Cork
• Role of special needs organiser
• Assessment of support needed
• Appeal to SENOs
• Number and location of SENOs
• Qualifications and expertise of Special Education Needs Organisers (SENOs)
• Additional information needed to secure NCSE review of SENO decision
• Independent appeals process  for SENO organisers
• Appeal decision of SENO
• Appeal the decision of a Special Educational Needs Organiser
• Adjournment Debate: Lack of SENO in Co. Clare
• Numbers of Special Education Needs Organisers and applications for SNAs granted
• Basis upon which the assessment of a special education needs officer is made
• Method by which parents can view assessment by SENO
• SENO’s taking advice of professionals
• Arrangements to approve school transport when local special education needs officer is on holiday
• Number of assessments and review undertaken by NCSE
• No. of assessments and reviews by the National Council for Special Education
• Scheme for students to transfer resource hour entitlement when moving schools
• Training of SENOs and if SENOs can overrule a recommendation by a psychologist
• Lack of consistency in assessing children for education supports
• Role of SENOs
• SENOs overruling recommendations of psychologists
• SENOs overruling recommendations of psychologists
• Role of SENOs

Resource and Special Needs Teachers

• Resource teachers in Tipperary for post-primary schools
• Special Needs Teachers
• How resource hours are used in schools
• Change in level of resource teachers
• New system of allocating teachers in school that are over quota
• Review decision to reduce numbers of special needs teachers
• Special Needs Teachers required on a county by county basis
• Provision for extra SNAs and resource teachers
• Lack of resource teaching hours and affect on children
• No. of resource and language support teachers employed
• Circular that provides the basis for additional posts in respect of remedial education
• Ramifications of deploying a special education teacher to a mainstream position
• Cuts in Resource Teachers
• Application process for resource hours
• Allocation of Resource Teaching
• When the resource hours put on hold will be reviewed
• SNA and Resource teacher hours same as 2010/2011
• Priority Questions: Number of children denied access to resource hours due to review being under the Employment Control Framework for Education
• Allocation of special needs resource teachers for the school year 2011-2012
• SNAs and Resource teaching hours in 2011/2012
• Resource teaching hours cap
• Resource teachers and students with delayed language development disorders

Appeals

• Additional information needed to secure NCSE review of SENO decision
• Education Appeals Board
• Special Education Appeals Board
• Independent appeals process  for SENO organisers
• Appeal decision of SENO
• Appeal the decision of a Special Educational Needs Organiser
• Amount allocated by his Department to the special education appeals board in 2009 and 2010
• Special Education Appeals Board
• Appeals made to NCSE since process started in February 2010
• Appeals process to NCSE
• Status of the Special Education Appeals Board
• Options if a school refuses to accept a child
• Options when no school placement available
• Independent appeals for NCSE decisions
• Do education appeals focus on individual children or the school
• Appeal system available to parents unhappy with SENO allocation
• Implementation of EPSEN & Appeals process
• Extend the remit of the Children’s Ombudsman to enable that office to examine the work of the National Council for Special Education

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GOVERNMENT POLICY

Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act (EPSEN)

• Education for Persons with Special Needs
• Special Education and Government Commitments
• Implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004
• Implementation of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004
• Implementation of EPSEN
• Additional Psychologists recruited to meet EPSEN
• Reason for delays in rolling out EPSEN
• Full implementation of EPSEN
• Halting of EPSEN in Budget 2009
• Money saved by Halting EPSEN
• Elements of EPSEN Act that are implemented
• Sections of EPSEN being deferred
• Amount spent on EPSEN
• Impact of deferral of EPSEN on Disability Act
• Aspects of EPSEN that are deferred
• Timescale for EPSEN
• EPSEN
• Rollout of EPSEN
• Progress in implementation of EPSEN
• Order of Business: Suspension of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act
• Implementation of EPSEN
• Cost of implementing EPSEN in full
• Order of Business: EPSEN Act and Capacity Legislation
• Aspects of EPSEN to be implemented in view of revised programme for government
• Multi-annual plan for EPSEN
• Implementation of EPSEN following revised programme for Government
• Parts of EPSEN implemented to date
• Implementation of EPSEN Act
• Priority Questions: Implementation of EPSEN
• Priority Question: plan for full implementation of EPSEN
• Priority Questions: Full implementation of EPSEN Act
• Individual education plans
• Private Members Motion: Education rights of children with disabilities
• Private Members Motion: Education rights of children with disabilities (continued from 12th July)
• Leader’s Questions: Promises on supporting education resources
• Implementation of EPSEN

General

• Education spend on National Disability Strategy
• National Disability Strategy Allocation and Education
• Education Commitments
• Budget Allocation of the Special Education Support Service
• Admissions Policy of Schools
• Policy regarding conductive education
• Grants to companies providing technology teaching services to students with special needs
• Improve pupil-teacher ratio and targets for psychological assessments and speech therapists
• Cost to Dept. of Education of revised programme for government
• Additional education resources for children with special needs
• Aspects of EPSEN to be implemented in view of revised programme for government
• Commitment to special needs assistants in revised programme for government
• Appropriate educational intervention and supports for children with special educational needs
• Number of staff in Dept. of Education
• Expert group on the education of children with emotional and behavioural disorders established by the National Council for Special Education
• Appoint parents of children with special needs to the National Council for Special Education
• PQ replies from the NCSE
• Supports provided by NCSE
• Review of the general allocation model
• Number of school places and education supports for children with a disability
• Adjournment Debate: Education for children with disabilities
• No. of children with disabilities in classes of over 30 children
• Education (Amendment) Bill 2010: Order for Second Stage: Section relating to children with disabilities (extracts)
• Number of children with special needs teaching requirements recorded in each county
• Proposals in the Cromien Report currently under consideration for implementation
• Education resources and children with a mild diagnosis of disability
• Schools to participate in the FÁS Work Placement Programme
• Draft National Plan to Improve Literacy and Numeracy in Schools and children with disabilities
• Total funding provided for the mainstreaming of persons with disabilities into the education system
• Funding provided to NCSE
• Entitlement to minimum standard of education under UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - Education
• Review of General Allocation Model for allocation of special needs resources
• Future of special needs education
• Requirements of children with special needs in mainstream education over the next four years
• Leader’s Questions: Cuts to education supports
• Order of Business: Education supports
• Supporting children with special education needs
• National Literacy Strategy
• Names of External Reports commissioned by Dept. Education from 1997-2000
• Level of resources for children with special education needs
• Education requirements of people with disabilities

Education Resources - direct replies from HSE

• Change in the procedure whereby health professionals provide reports which form the basis for the allocation of educational supports - October 2010

Education Cutbacks

[Please note specific cutbacks are contained under that subject area, e.g. cutbacks to SNAs are in the SNA section]

• Private Member’s Business: Education cutbacks for children with special educational needs
• Special Educational Needs: Motion (Resumed)
• Reversal of cuts to special education
• Motion: Education Supports for Children with Disabilities
  • Opposition Motion
  • Government Motion
• Education cuts resulting from the Report of the Special Group on Public Service Numbers and Expenditure Programmes
• Leader’s Questions: Cuts to education supports for children with disabilities

National Council for Special Education (NCSE)  

• Rent charged on buildings rented out by the State (NCSE offices)
• NCSE under remit of Ombudsman for Children
• Cost of NCSE
• Extending remit of Ombudsman for Children to cover the working of the National Council on Special Education
• Administrative savings made by NCSE
• NCSE criteria for allocating resources

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SPECIFIC DISABILITIES

Autism and Education

• Leaders’ Questions: Autism and Education
• ABA Training
• Autism and Education
• Resources for mainstream schools and pupils with autism
• Education through the Spectrum Conference
• Approval of ABA Schools
• Order of Business: Ministerial Responsibility for Education of Children with Autism
• Appropriate placements for Autistic School-leavers in Co. Dublin
• School leavers with autism
• Education needs of children with autism
• Extra educational grants for children with autism
• Educate public about autism
• Second level education opportunities for children with autism
• Educational resources for children with autism
• Schools with autism units
• Terms of home tuition scheme for children with autism
• ABA schools in receipt of funding from Dept. of Education
• Number of special classes for children with autism at primary level
• Negotiations regarding ABA schools
• Pilot ABA School
• Education and children with autism
• Co-operation between Departments of Health and Education regarding transition of children with autism from pre-school
• New provisions to address educational needs of children with Aspergers, Autism, ADD and ADHD
• Adjournment Debate: Education Resources for Children with Autism
• Number of autism or other special teacher units available in mainstream schools in County Kildare
• Steps taken to meet the educational requirements of autistic children
• Number of autism or other special teaching units currently available at all mainstream schools throughout the country
• Number of children with Autism in special schools
• School for children with autism in Co. Mayo
• ABA Academy
• ABA school in Dublin North-east
• ABA Academy
• Funding for pupils with autism
• Academy for children with autism in Dublin 13
• Adjournment Debate: Achieve ABA school in Kilbarrack
• Academy for children with autism
• Funding for ABA school in Dublin 13
• ABA Academy
• Transition to post-primary school for children with autism
• Policy on education for children with autism
• Funding for Achieve ABA
• Irish language exemption for children with Aspergers
• Policy document on education of children with autism

Down Syndrome and Education

• Education and Children with Down Syndrome
• Recognition to Down’s syndrome children as having specific learning disabilities
• Children with Down Syndrome and Teaching Hours
• Educational Supports for Children with Down Syndrome
• Support services available to children with Down’s syndrome attending primary school
• Children with Down syndrome in mainstream schools

Cerebral Palsy

• Inclusion policy of  Department of Education for children with cerebral palsy

Dyslexia and Dyspraxia

• Education funding for dyspraxia

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SCHOOL CYCLE

Pre-school

• Expansion of pre-school facilities for children with intellectual disabilities
• Pre-school children with special education needs
• Early intervention for children with special educational needs
• Pilot scheme of pre-school classes for children with Down syndrome, metabolic disorders, and ADHD
• Pre-school Services (Education)
• Preschool initiatives for children with special needs
• Grants for preschools for children with special needs
• Grants for Preschool initiatives for Children with Special Education Needs
• Home tuition grant and preschools
• Preschool for children with special needs
• Pre-school for children with special needs
• Children with Kabuki Syndrome and Preschool Education
• Adjournment Debate: Preschool for children with special education needs
• Pre-School Year in Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) scheme and children with a disability
• Right to children to a special needs assistant in pre-school
• Extra pre-school year for children with a disability
• Co-operation between Departments of Health and Education regarding transition of children with autism from pre-school
• Children with disabilities and free pre-school place
• Adjournment Debate: Preschool Services
• Preschool resources
• HSE provision for preschools for children with disabilities
• Free pre-school year
• Pre-school scheme and flexibility for children with disabilities
• Children with disabilities and extra year in early childcare education
• Priority Questions: Strict age range for eligibility under the early childhood care and education school free preschool year
• Future of the early childhood care and education scheme
• Adjournment Debate: Pre-school and children with disabilities
• Continuation of Early Childhood Care and Education Programme
• Continuation of Early Childhood Care and Education (ECCE) programme

Primary Education

• Mainstream Education and children with autism
• Provision of places in all Schools for Children with Special Needs
• Pupil Time spent Travelling to Primary School
• Equitable policy in schools for accepting special needs students
• July Education Scheme
• General allocation model in primary schools
• Admissions Policy of Schools
• Construction of classrooms in primary schools
• Regulation of enrolment policy for primary schools
• Finance for primary schools
• Inspectorate at primary and secondary level
• Number of Primary Inspectors who have retired since promotion embargo was introduced
• Improve pupil-teacher ratio and targets for psychological assessments and speech therapists
• Additional education resources for children with special needs
• 4% cut to special education initiatives in primary schools
• Enrolment age at primary school
• Staff ratios as per SERC Report
• General Allocation for Learning Support
• Places available in schools for children with a disability on a county by county basis
• Pupil-Teacher Ratio
• Grants available for primary school students with specific speech and language impairment for the purchase of computer equipment
• Loss of resources when a pupil transfers to another school
• Procedures in place to assist a child moving from a special needs school to a mainstream school
• Speech and Language provision in mainstream schools
• Transfer of children with disabilities from primary to secondary school
• Cost child’s primary education

Secondary School

• Second level school supports for pupils with literacy and numeracydifficulties
• Support available for students progressing from primary to secondary school
• Second level for children with special needs
• Use of resource teaching hours
• Admissions Policy of Schools
• Teachers with special needs qualifications
• Inspectorate at primary and secondary level
• Additional education resources for children with special needs
• Staff ratios as per SERC Report
• General Allocation for Learning Support
• Policy requiring students with a disability to leave special schools at 18
• No. of students with a disability in Cork seeking second level education
• Specifications for fit out for a post-primary special needs unit for students with autism
• Supports for children with autism at second level
• Providing additional time to candidates for State exams based on their disability
• Transition to secondary school
• Speech and Language provision in mainstream schools
• Transfer of children with disabilities from primary to secondary school
• Education supports in post-primary schools
• Transition to post-primary school for children with autism

School Leavers

• Funding for young people leaving school
• Adjournment Debate: School leavers
• Funding for School-leavers
• Funding for School-leavers in Dublin 18
• Facilities in Tipperary for people with an intellectual disability over 18
• School leavers
• School leavers at Prosper Fingal
• School-Leavers and further training places
• Adjournment Debate: School leavers in Tralee
• Policy requiring students with a disability to leave special schools at 18
• Funding for training for persons with intellectual disabilities in Dublin South-West and Dublin West

Third Level & Lifelong Education

• Student Support Bill
  • Continued
  • Continued
• Third Level Education and Financial Supports
• Access to Lifelong Learning for Adults with Disabilities
• Fund for Students with Disabilities
• Back to Education
• Rollout of pilot special needs initative to all Youthreach centres
• Access to lifelong learning for adults with disabilities
• Special Education Needs Initiative
• Adult Education for people with disabilities
• Further Third Level Initiatives
• Life-long learning
• Budget for academic personal assistants for students with disabilities in third level institutions
• Funding for personal assistant services in Carlow IT
• Supports for part-time students with a disability at third level
• Number of third level students who have made an application under the fund for students with disabilities scheme
• Third Level Access Measure
• Problems with third level grants and students with disabilities
• Staff of Colleges of Further Education to access development events provided by Special Education Support Service and Second Level Support Service
• Third Level Grants
• Supports for graduates with a disability
• Disability Access Route to Education
• Course in leadership and advocacy at Dundalk IT
• Advocacy course in Southeast
• Leadership and advocacy course at Dundalk Institute of Technology

Special Schools

• Staffing Levels in Special Schools
• Lack of resources in special school in Kilkenny
• Special Needs Teachers and Special Needs Assistants at schools in Co. Kildare
• Review of special schools
• Adjournment Debate: loss of staff at St. Joseph’s School, Tallaght
• Reduction in staff numbers at special school in Tallaght
• Cuts to special school in Tallaght
• Staff cuts at school in Dublin 24
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to St. Anthony’s school in Castlebar
• Adjournment Debate: Reduction in staff at St. Raphael’s, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
• Staff ratios as per SERC Report
• General Allocation for Learning Support
• Equality Tribunal decision re age finishing special schools
• Staffing at Special Schools
• Procedures in place to assist a child moving from a special needs school to a mainstream school

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SCHOOLS - OTHER

Teaching

• Teachers with restricted recognition
• Access to training for teachers
• Specialist Training for Teachers
• Garda Vetting of teachers and staff at schools
• Number of teachers and teaching supports

Summer Education

• Summer Education Programme
• July Education Programme
• Qualifications of providers of July Education Programme
• Home Tuition for Children attending Special Needs Schools
• Adjournment Debate: Home Tuition Scheme
• Changes to Home Tuition
• Tutors deemed ineligible to deliver home tuition
• Payments for home tuition
• Home tuition
• Delay in July home education programme payment
• July provision scheme
• July Education Programme
• July Education Programme
• Changes to July Education Programme

School Enrolment Policies

• School Enrolment Policies
• School enrolment policies that discriminate against children with disabilities

Examinations

• Annotation on examination certificates

Physical Access

• Lifts in Schools
• Equipment in Schools for pupils with a disability

Geographical and Individual Education Issues

• Funding for St. Raphael’s, Celbridge
• Adjournment Debate: Páistí le Chéile Project, Roscommon
• Adjournment Debate: Special Education Needs Services in Donegal
• Special Education Needs Initiatives in Youthreach centres in Kerry
• Special Needs Teachers in Monaghan
• Reducation in teachers and SNAs in Dublin South
• Special needs classes cuts in Dublin 5 and Dublin 13
• Funds allocated to a school in Limerick
• Staffing levels at special school in Limerick
• Cuts in educational supports for children in Meath
• Allocation to a school in Wexford
• Additional education resources in Kildare
• Speech and language therapists in County Kildare
• SNAs in Kildare
• Adjournment Debate: renovations at Scoil Chaitríona, Co. Galway
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts to SNAs at St. Raphaels, Celbridge, Co. Kildare
• Education services for children with autism in Lucan, Co. Dublin
• Special class at school in Dublin 17
• Adjournment Debate: Cuts at St. Senan’s primary school, Enniscorthy, County Wexford
• Resource teacher at St. Catherine’s in Dublin
• Reason Kilkenny Vocational Educational Committee has refused to establish a special class to cater for eight autistic children
• Adjournment Debate: cutbacks at St. Brigids school in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
• Loss of special class at school in Dublin 8
• Number of SNAs in Meath
• Number of SNAs in Wicklow
• New special class in Dun Laoghaire

Psychological Services

• Psychological Service
• Resource Teaching Hours and Psychological Reports
• Assessments of educational support needed for a children with an intellectual disability
• Waiting list for NEPs in primary and secondary schools in Clare
• Psychological Assessments for children of school-going age
• Psychological assessment needs at all schools
• Reversing cut to NEPS
• Number of Education Psychologists employed in 1996 vs. 2011
• Numbers employed by NEPS
• Time taken for NEPS assessment
• Resources in schools for children with mental health problems
• Counseling services within schools, & teacher training in area of mental health

School Transport

• Department of Education’s School Transport Scheme
• School transport
• Special needs pupils transport
• School Transport Scheme for Children with Disabilities
• School transport and new distance ruling
• Catchment area rules and school transport
• €50 per child charge for school transport
• Changes to school transport system
• Priority Question: School Transport
• School transport costs
• Review school transport changes made by previous government
• Adjournment Debate: School transport
• School transport

Home Tuition Grant

• Home Tuition Scheme
• Extension of Home Tuition Grant
• Adjournment Debate: Home Tuition Grants
• Home tuition for children who formerly attended school for children with autism in Dublin 13

Medication in schools

• School employees administering medication

Education aids

• Purchase of educational aids and equipment for special needs pupils
• School books as PDFs to facilitate children with a disability

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GENERAL

Education - general

• Special Needs Education
• Leader’s Question: Special Needs & Education
• Fine Gael Motion: Special Education Needs
  • Motion continued
• Special Education Needs
• Special Education Needs
• Allocation model for special needs education provision in primary schools
• Staff engaged by the National Council for Special Education
• Information on Education Provision for Children with Special Needs
• Personnel numbers in special education
• Provision of Special Needs Supports in Schools

• Education provisions for children with special needs
• Education requirements of children with special needs

• Breakdown of €10 million for special education needs
• Discussions with schools on Budget cuts
• Children with special needs more disadvantaged in Budget
• If alternative options for budget cuts were discussed before cutting special needs education
• Additional education resources for children with special needs
• Conductive education
• Responsibilities of the National Council for Special Education in assisting the HSE regarding education for children under five years
• Savings outlined in the Report of the Special Group on Public Numbers and Expenditure Programmes which were accepted in budget 2010 for Dept. of Education
• Staff ratios as per SERC Report
• Status of Education Proposals in Bord Snip Report
• Review of General Allocation Model in Education
• Priority of Care Needs over Academic Needs of Children in Education
• Assistance to the parents of children with behavioural problems who have lost their place at primary or second level schools
• Educational provision planned in the proposed new national children’s hospital of Ireland
• Tutors in the applied behaviour analysis programme
• Children assessed as needing additional education support
• Education for children with disabilities in new children’s hospital

Research

• Research into benefits of educational support to children with special education needs
• Reports commissioned by Department of Education in last five years

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GOVERNMENT FUNDING

Capitation Grants

• Capitation Grants
• Priority Questions: Withdrawal of capitation grants for school services
• Capitation grant for children with disabilities
• Specific Speech and Language Disorder

Court Cases

• Costs of Legal Services to Dept. of Education
• Order of Business: Court cases re education and children with a disability
• Cost to State of Court Action regarding provision of resources
• Number of court actions regarding the provision of resources to primary and post-primary school students with special needs

Other

• Cost to Dept. of Education of revised programme for government
• Value of minor works grant for each special needs pupil
• Tax relief on private tuition
• Staff ratios as per SERC Report
• Tax Relief on private tuition
• Details of all private colleges that have received funding from the special education support service

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MISCELLANEOUS

Access to Information

• Information Guide for Parents on Education Entitlement

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