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Other Questions: Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 36. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the status of the work of the expert panel established to examine the issue of mica including the number of homes it visited in County Donegal in early May 2016 and when it will report its findings to him; if he will put a redress scheme in place to provide financial assistance to affected home owners; and if he will make...

Other Questions: Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State for his response. I would like to emphasise the importance of this issue for County Donegal and the impact it has had on the affected home owners since there is a new Government in place and two new Ministers, the Minister of State and the Minister, Deputy Coveney. We do not have a figure at the moment in terms of the number of houses that are affected, but for...

Other Questions: Pyrite Panel Report Recommendations (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: From having visited a number of the householders affected and having been out campaigning during the general election, I believe the numbers are in the thousands, rather than the hundreds. It is a very significant problem. The home owners were very frustrated by the delay in the panel being set up to assess the problem. I agree with the Minister of State that the panel must now have the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 158. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 205 of 17 June 2015, if he has made a decision on a matter; if not, when he will; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11398/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Applications (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 159. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to approve an application by a school (details supplied) under the summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11401/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Summer Works Scheme Data (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department provided funding for playgrounds under the recently announced summer works scheme; if not, if he will provide funding for this under the next summer works scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11402/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Leader Programmes Administration (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 225. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to alter the structure of the delivery of the Leader programme and the local partnership arrangements and to increase funding to the Leader programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11348/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 444. To ask the Minister for Health for a status update on the recruitment of a second permanent consultant neurologist for the north-west region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11386/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 451. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a special needs assistant for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11400/16]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Appeals (24 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an appeal by a person (details supplied) under the basic payment scheme 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11199/16]

Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (19 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 12. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address concerns over the long waiting times for special needs assessment by the National Educational Psychological Service; and if he will implement the new system of allocation of resource teaching hours, which is currently being piloted on a national basis, in September 2016. [10836/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Apprenticeship Programmes (19 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 5. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how he will double the number of apprenticeships by 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11139/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: State Examinations Reviews (19 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 3. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his proposals for progressing with reform of the junior certificate; if students in schools that have not implemented the new junior cycle English curriculum will automatically lose 10% in their English examinations in 2017 if their teachers do not agree to engage with the new assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11138/16]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Special Educational Needs (19 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to address concerns over the long waiting times for Special Needs assessment by the National Educational Psychological Service; and if he intends to implement the new system of allocation of resource teaching hours allocation, that is currently being piloted on a national basis in September 2016. [11137/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Reform (19 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his proposals to reform the junior certificate; if students in schools that have not implemented the new junior cycle English curriculum will automatically lose 10% in their English examinations in 2017 if their teachers do not agree to engage with the new assessment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10837/16]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Funding (19 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 115. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when he will provide funding for the construction of SI houses to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11029/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (18 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 77. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos 205 of 17 June 2015 and 205 of 10 November 2015, if he has made a decision on the matter or when he expects to make a decision on it; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10721/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Services Staff (18 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to put a system in place to allow secretaries to become direct employees of his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10898/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (18 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 148. To ask the Minister for Health why children with sclerosis are waiting up to two years to have surgery; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10734/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Building Programme (18 May 2016)

Charlie McConalogue: 149. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the new theatre that is specifically being provided for in Crumlin Hospital in Dublin 12 to assist the treatment of scoliosis is not opened given that the former Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection gave an assurance in Dáil Éireann on 21 January 2016 that its construction was due to be completed in April 2016; and if he...