The Government cannot give any commitment on when a new online safety commissioner will be appointed.

Reports over the weekend said former Taoiseach Enda Kenny helped Facebook influence EU data protection laws - something which has been disputed by the Irish regulator.

The Communications Minister added that a huge amount of investigation has gone into the final tendering process of the National Broadband Plan.

Activists have targeted the home of Minister Richard Bruton a week after staging a similar protest outside the family home of Health Minister Simon Harris.

Fine Gael has now been in power since March 9, 2011, and just three of its 10 ministers appointed to the Cabinet that day remain at the table — Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, Tánaiste Simon Coveney, and newly appointed Communications Minister Richard Bruton.

Nearly 30 Munster schools are being funded to work together on creative projects covering everything from coding to gardening.

Additional funding and acknowledgement of staff concerns will be vital to the success of the country’s first technological university, the Higher Education Authority (HEA) has told Education Minister Richard Bruton.

The resolution of a legal dispute over payments to victims of sex abuse in schools is being held up by a delayed response from Education Minister Richard Bruton to a retired High Court judge.

Most schools will be given no extra Government funding for digital equipment vital to the teaching and examination of new Leaving Certificate computer science and physical education (PE) subjects.

A new policy to deal with mental health issues in schools risks being a sticking-plaster solution unless therapists are put in place, a leading educationalist has said.

The Government and schools are not living up to their duties to reduce education costs for parents, a charity has said.

Guidance counsellors are the best people in schools to assist students with mental health issues, their representative organisation has said.

Young people are being urged to come together and collaborate.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has said the State cannot intercede and take on the private debts of companies that go into liquidation.

One of the ground rules of cute-hoor Ireland is that “if you must say something, say nothing.” In Kerry there is a regional variation: “I can talk all day and say nothing.”

The likelihood of the first technological university (TU) being established in Dublin should be known by the end of summer.

Post-primary schools on the country's islands in the Gaeltacht, are to receive extra funding.

Plans to introduce computer science as a Leaving Cert subject will be revealed today.

A number of school building projects will be delayed after the liquidation of major construction company Sammon Contracting Ireland yesterday.

Supports from the €110m fund administered by Caranua are not to be extended beyond survivors of institutional child abuse, Education Minister Richard Bruton has decided.

Education and training boards have rejected claims of a conflict in their involvement with surveys of parents in areas where they may seek to become new school patrons.

The Education Minister has told schools they need to consult with parents on smartphone use in the classroom.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has confirmed schools will get 800 additional Special Needs Assistants from September.

The Catholic Church has handed over control of just 11 schools despite efforts by the State to increase diversity in the education system.

Schools could be legally forced to set up classes for pupils with special educational needs if parents are unable to get a local school to provide services.

The Department of Education is providing no new funding for schools to undertake important building repairs and upgrades this summer.

Making religion an optional subject for students at hundreds of second-level schools has forced trainee teachers to look for work abroad, an educationalist has warned.

Education Minister Richard Bruton is in danger of failing to deliver a 2016 Government commitment to increase funding for schools, which are being subsidised by parents and local communities to the tune of €46m a year.

Teachers could lose €6,000 over two years if they participate in industrial action, including strikes, in support of equal pay for newer entrants to the job.

Parents in dozens of areas where new schools will open in the next four years will have to choose patrons online to run them because of past problems with the selection process.

It is in keeping with the annual whinge-fest from teachers and doctors — I mean conference season — that the issue of pay makes its way to the top of the agenda, writes Daniel McConnell.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has declined to say what penalties, if any, teachers will face should they strike over the lower-pay structure for post-2011 recruits.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has declined to say what penalties, if any, teachers will face should they strike over the lower-pay structure for post-2011 recruits.

A bill to prevent schools from using their religious ethos to avoid providing objective and factual sex education is to be debated in the Dáil.

The Minister for Education & Skills Richard Bruton and ICHEC has launched a competition to name Ireland’s newest supercomputer which will be made available to all Irish researchers.

Education Minister Richard Bruton is under pressure to provide the extra staff to allow students to be offered alternative subjects, in place of religion, at hundreds of second-level schools.

The Education Minister wants to double the number of student teachers.

School principals have welcomed the restoration of middle-management posts that will see more promotional chances in second-level schools, writes Niall Murray, Education Correspondent.

Third-level chiefs have warned the Government they need major investment to deliver reforms aimed at making colleges more responsive to economic and societal needs.

It has emerged that a UK construction company that has gone bust, is involved in building five schools and a college here.

Colleges that make unauthorised payments to staff or make misleading or false financial reports could be hit with financial penalties from the end of this year, the Government has decided.

Radical reforms of how third-level colleges share public investment will have little effect unless the Government decides soon how to deal with a funding crisis in the sector, the experts who designed the reforms have warned.

Education Minister Richard Bruton has admitted the Cabinet is divided on plans to potentially allow unrestricted access to abortion in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, saying ministers’ views “reflect the people at large”.

The Education Minister said the Brexit deal reached yesterday will protect Irish interests even if things go wrong in phase two.