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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 454. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46126/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will issue on student grant applications in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46129/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on student grant applications in respect of persons (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46165/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Applications (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on a student grant application in respect of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46168/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Delays (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new applications and renewals that are awaiting decisions from Student Universal Support Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46171/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the considerations he and his Department have given to the issue of defective blocks in County Donegal; the way affected householders might be able to proceed in engaging with his Department on this issue; the financial supports there are for persons who find themselves in this situation; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Pyrite Issues (2 Dec 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 506. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will permit the Pyrite Resolution Board to consider the emerging situation in County Donegal with respect to defective blocks; if not, his plans to address this problem in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45957/14]

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: What negotiations has the Minister had with her colleague, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Alex White, following his announcement during the week regarding the roll-out of broadband in areas of the country that will not be serviced by private operators? The Minister indicated that 200 primary schools will receive higher speed broadband in the near future,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works grant in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45455/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I very much welcome that the minor works grant will be paid this year. Many schools are waiting for funds and finding it very difficult to pay their bills and are existing on overdrafts. Unfortunately, no clarity was given to the schools throughout this year as to whether this very important grant would be paid to them. The first time they had any certainty that it would be paid was when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not accept the Minister’s answer. The fact that she has taken €28 million from the capital budget means many schools that are ready to go with their building works and whose building works are in progress are being stalled into next year to provide the money. This is not money that the Minister finds, nor was it before the Government came into office. It was normally...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45454/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: This is to ask the Minister for an update on the reform of the junior cycle, particularly in light of the fact that a teachers' strike is imminent on 2 December.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for her response. I welcomed the Minister's row-back on the need for the junior certificate to continue to be a State certified examination and for 60% of the final examination to be externally assessed. I had been calling for that for more than two years, as had others, but the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, was not in listening mode throughout the three years in which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Issues remain regarding the 40% in-school assessment and project work that need to be discussed with the concerns. They still have genuine concerns, as they had until now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's position is that she will only talk to them if they accept at the outset that there will be 60% outside assessment and 40% inside assessment. That is a barrier to real negotiations and getting down to the nitty-gritty, which can lead to a resolution. Will the Minister go back to the talks, do a real assessment of the remaining issues, and try to come to an agreement which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's response to the decision of teachers to strike, and I have called on teachers to call off the strike and engage with her, also requires her leaving the door properly ajar for discussions with them. Rather than being a progression, the Minister's U-turn, which brings us back to where we started, and her corresponding stance that any talks are dependent on the unions agreeing to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45282/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to advance proposals for a technological university in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45286/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model has caused deep concern and that many school principals, particularly in rural and smaller communities, are worried that the gathering of personal information may damage the school-home relationship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45284/14]