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Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (1 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide funds to a company (details supplied) in County Donegal under the free travel scheme so that the senior citizens of Inishowen can avail of free travel in the same way that their contemporaries can all over the country; this route is not a new route, it is the same route as was operated by Lough Swilly before it went out of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 99. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant posts being filled by agency staff in Letterkenny General Hospital; the total cost in 2014 to Letterkenny General Hospital of the agency paid consultants; if an allowance will be made in the Letterkenny General Hospital budget to reflect this situation; his plans to attract consultants to Letterkenny General Hospital; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the consultant posts which are being filled by agency staff in Letterkenny General Hospital; the length of time that these posts have been filled by agency staff; the total cost to Letterkenny General Hospital in 2014 of the agency consultants; the efforts his Department is making to ensure that these consultant posts are filled by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the implementation of the policy in the professional development service for teachers with regard to the need for staff within the service to retire or return to the classroom within five years, therefore losing the experience built up in the service throughout the years; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 562. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to change the criteria for the buying out of houses for voluntary housing groups (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36683/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I am not a member of this committee. I endorse Deputy Smith's suggestion on having a session to follow on from a meeting dealing with the progress of the North West Gateway Initiate with officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, who are responsible for driving the project from the Republic. I also support the suggestion an invitation would issue to representatives from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome Councillor Canning and Ms Margey from Donegal, and Councillor Hastings. It is a pleasure to see them and to have met them yesterday evening. In the north-west cross-Border group, Donegal is the main stakeholder in the Republic, and has suffered alongside the North over many years due to the lack of joined-up political thinking between the Six Counties and the Border counties....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a one-point reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level. [36350/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a one-point reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio for the first four years at primary level. [36351/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expediting teacher recruitment so that primary schools would be allocated teachers on the basis of the current school year’s enrolment figures as distinct from the previous year’s enrolment figures. [36352/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: As Senator Power pointed out, €25 million was taken out of the third level sector last year and the colleges were told to take it from their reserves. It was the same the year before. Since an assessment was made in advance and the colleges had to make it up from reserves I presume there has been some monitoring of how that has worked out. What has the impact been in respect of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I have two brief questions on one-teacher schools and junior cycle reform costs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister confirm that the number of one-teacher schools created this year will be 40 or so, compared with ten last year? Is there any room within the Estimates to support these schools and will she comment on their viability in a context where numbers are increasing? The process of junior cycle reform has commenced, but 10% of English teachers delivering the curriculum as of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister comment on one-teacher schools?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: It is an important point.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I refer to primary and secondary level. Does it come under this heading?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: It is under subhead D in that case. That is fine, we will come to that later. On the back-to-school costs survey, the former Minister, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, made a big brouhaha about carrying it out and publishing it. He followed it up shortly afterwards with a big banner at the Labour Party conference about how the Labour Party is working to reduce back-to-school costs. There has not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I will try to be as brief as possible. What I am hearing is that the Minister is not going to follow up on the survey and she is pointing to the-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: ----- €5 million for school books which is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Vote 26 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Education and Skills (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The reason people cannot afford to go to school is because of-----