News & Statements
Update: Providing for Small Rural Denominational Schools, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the degree to which she remains satisfied of her ability and the need to provide for smaller rural denominational schools...
Update: Reducing Class Sizes, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which provision is ongoing to reduce class sizes/improve pupil teacher ratios...
Update: Replacement of Deficient School Buildings, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of deficient or prefabricated school buildings replaced by her Department...
Update: School Building Programme, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to meet to the maximum extent possible the full requirements as set out in the school building programme...
Update: SNAs & Teachers in Kildare, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of special needs teachers currently available throughout County Kildare...
Update: Student Accommodation, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent, if any to which a deficit in student accommodation has been identified within the catchment area within the various third level institutions...
Update: Submissions from Primary School Authorities, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the extent to which she has received submissions from the various primary school authorities...
Update: Supporting Small Denominational Schools, 1st July 2015
To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her willingness to continue her support for smaller urban or rural schools with a denominational ethos...
Parliamentary Question addressed to the Minister for Finance
To ask the Minister for Finance if persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through Airbnb are eligible to Rent-A-Room Relief; and if he will make a statement on the matter. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to extend Rent-A-Room Relief to persons renting out a room or rooms in their home through Airbnb; and if he will make a statement on the matter?
When disaster strikes: How the EU can help protect women’s and girls’ health and rights
Imagine how it must feel to be separated from your family, forced to flee your home and then find yourself living in a tent, among strangers, vulnerable to sexual violence. Imagine giving birth in these unsafe and unhygienic circumstances, or caring for a newborn baby, or simply trying to keep yourself clean and healthy so that you can get on with the mammoth task of rebuilding your life, your home, your community.