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Written Answers — Business Regulation: Business Regulation (5 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 31: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation the progress made to date in reducing the regulatory burden on business by 25%; the timeframe for the completion of same; the actions taken so far; the actions yet to be taken; the actions being taken by him to streamline regulatory enforcement to small and medium enterprise; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Enterprise Support Services: Enterprise Support Services (5 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 36: To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Innovation his plans for the development of business incubation centres and hot desk centres here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10008/11]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional staff that have been allocated for Traveller pupils under DEIS for the 2011/2012 school year; and the number of teachers that have been allocated for this purpose for each of the past three years. [9830/11]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which he will publish the Educational Research Centre evaluation and report of the DEIS scheme; the date on which he will publish the evaluation by his Department's inspectorate of the implementation of DEIS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9831/11]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 72: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the alleviation measures being provided to assist schools who have had their resource teachers for Travellers withdrawn under circular 0017/2011. [9930/11]

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: We have a trapdoor in the case where an SNA is shared between two schools. If the SNA is not based in the school, the child in need cannot move on, based on the envelope available. That is one way of looking at it. My proposal is radical, but it could work to solve the difficulties faced by schools. We have seen that positive changes are taking place, with smaller classes and so on....

Vocational Education Committees (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Is there a timescale for the rationalisation programme? I presume the thinking behind the rationalisation has to do with cost savings. What cost savings will there be as a result of the amalgamation of these services. Different changes have been proposed over the years for this sector by the various parties, but to a large extent the system as it exists has worked and there have been...

Vocational Education Committees (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Has the Minister decided on which areas he intends to amalgamate?

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Many parents are concerned that they are not getting speedy assessments. When the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act was passed by this House it was supposed to provide supports for those families, but we increasingly find that the families need to make up the shortfall. We have no timescale for when the Act will be fully implemented. I listened to what the Minister...

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Let me give an example based on the predicament of a family in a certain school. The child in question is being dismissed from school because, from 21 February to 11 March, there was an unmet requirement to supply psychological support, psychiatric support, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and social worker support. The family is supposed to come up with the goods in the...

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Everybody would accept that the original deal on this matter was a bad one from the point of view of the State and redress. The reason I put this question down was to find out the timescale for this. The Minister says it will go to Cabinet shortly. What will the procedure be after that? Will the Minister return to the Dáil to make an announcement on it? There was concern that many of...

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: When will that happen? The Ryan report was produced in 2009 and it is now 2011. When will we have a timescale for this?

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Until what date does the Minister envisage those discussions taking place? What is the cut-off date?

Residential Institutions Redress Scheme (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Is it within the lifetime of the Government?

Schools Counselling Services (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 5: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outline the provision of in-school counselling for students at post primary level and the in-school services for students in post-parasuicide or post-attempted suicide situations; and his plans to make recommendations to schools to provide in-school counselling for students. [9928/11]

Schools Counselling Services (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: I thank the Minister for responding to this matter. I tabled this question to find out what is happening in this regard. We all accept that there is a crisis and the House has spent some days recently discussing suicide prevention. One difficulty, however, is that schools may take different approaches to such cases. I am not saying that one approach will fit all, but this growing crisis...

Schools Counselling Services (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: I am aware of schools that have a problem in this regard. My worry is that I do not know who is taking an overview of what is happening in the schools. Is the Department monitoring this and looking at particular schools where a problem has arisen? Is it examining the response to this problem? Are officials monitoring this growing phenomenon in schools?

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 8: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to review the allocation of special needs assistants in DEIS schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9929/11]

Special Educational Needs (4 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: The Minister will accept that there are particular demands on DEIS schools in terms of where children come from. I accept what he said, that he has an envelope for education services. However, there are particular demands on SNA support services in DEIS schools. In many cases there is a senior and a junior school operating in tandem. When the EPSEN Act was passing through the House we...

Written Answers — EM-IMF Fund: EM-IMF Fund (3 May 2011)

Seán Crowe: Question 43: To ask the Minister for Finance the additional public expenditure commitments or amendments to the November 2010 EU-IMF Programme of Financial Support for Ireland Memorandum of Understanding that he has agreed with the Troika; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9664/11]