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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 wish to follow up on a point made by my colleague, Senator Power, on early years education. Could the Minister clarify what the working group she is to establish will do and what its timeline is? What plans does the Minister have specifically on supporting quality and curriculum roll-out at preschool level? Does she believe more resources will be required for the area next year? I...

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: Can the Minister give an estimate of the additional cost to the Department next year for teachers, buildings, and school transport, for example, as a result of the increased number of students?

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: Is there likely to be €30 million in savings built in from last year's budget in next year's figures? And is the Minister facing potential increases in costs of €65 million as a result of demographic pressures?

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: Can the Minister give a more definite answer?

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 former Minister, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, was considering the value-for-money report for perhaps 18 months with everyone and yet nobody seems to have seen it, apart from the Minister and Minister of State and the officials. It is not acceptable that it sits on the table for that amount of time. It is a delaying tactic.

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 welcome the Minister and the Minister of State to the committee and wish both of them the best in their new roles. I congratulate both on their promotions to the Department and to their positions. I also thank their officials for attending the meeting today. Is it the case that the Minister is seeking a €39 million reduction in the overall education budget in the coming year?

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: That is for the current year. Does the Minister have any overall indication yet of what cuts or otherwise are expected in the coming year? Are there particular figures in the upcoming budget which the Minister has already identified as feeding into a reduction of the bottom line for the coming year? A value-for-money report on small schools, including primary and second level education...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 167. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to correspondence, details supplied; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35993/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a person, details supplied, in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36147/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 168. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding school transport in respect of a student, details supplied, in County Westmeath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36016/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 183. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he will meet with the National Collective of Community Based Women's Network to recognise the Government's commitment to supporting disadvantaged women and thus ensure that the current funding is ring-fenced and safeguarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36042/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 201. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that marginalised women are not a target group of the new social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP; if he will provide reassurance to the National Collective Community Based Women's Network, NCCWN, that an alternative funding stream will be made available to...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 202. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to support the voluntary board of the National Collective Community Based Women's Network, NCCWN, with the responsibilities to 17 local women’s projects, 44 staff members and approximately 200 non-directly employed staff (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36138/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 203. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to engage with the National Collective Community Based Women's Network, NCCWN, to resolve the difficulty that has arisen because that organisation created a national structure to meet the requirement of the community development programme which now precludes them from securing funding post 2014 under the new...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Community Development Initiatives (24 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 204. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to ring-fence funding to support the National Collective Community Based Women's Network to deliver the only programme specifically targeted at women from disadvantaged communities; his plans to provide support for this marginalised group who are not named under the social inclusion and community activation...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (23 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 30. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if farmers with rights to commonage land will have to agree a grazing plan with at least 50% of farmers using the same commonage in order to qualify for single farm payments and disadvantaged area payments under the new Common Agricultural Policy proposals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35162/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Commonage Framework Plans (23 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 31. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will revise the requirement for 50% of farmers on a commonage to agree a grazing plan in order to participate in GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35163/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 435. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will include a school's building project (details supplied) on the capital programme as part of budget 2015. [35311/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will be provided to this Deputy's correspondence regarding a school transport issue (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35348/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (23 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 443. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to replace the prefabs at a school (detailed supplied) with permanent accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35475/14]