Results 1,981-2,000 of 8,015 for speaker:Jonathan O'Brien

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 267. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his view on whether it is sufficient that the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board meets once a month; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40776/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 268. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will consider directing the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board to hold meetings on a series of consecutive days until it has resolved outstanding issues. [40777/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 269. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a progress report on the work of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board to date including costs and expenses claimed by each member. [40778/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 270. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board has determined the range of approved services within four classes of service stipulated in the Act, that is, mental health services including counselling and psychological support, health and personal social services, education services and housing services; the criteria by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 272. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which funds from the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund will be released to survivors of institutional abuse; and if the board has the requisite powers to refund former residents of institutions who have expended personal funds on health and other services stipulated in the Act before or since the establishment day; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 275. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he believes the 2012 Act establishing the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund contains the requisite powers to allow the RISF board to continue funding annually renewable life-skills courses for qualifying former residents of institutions commenced under the authority of the former Education Finance Board, the dissolved body, but not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the salary being paid to the chief executive officer of the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund board will be deducted from the €110 million RISF. [40780/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 273. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all 15,000 names and addresses of former residents of institutions who received awards at the Residential Institutions Redress Board have been transferred to the RISF board; if he will state the precise date of the data transfer and format or formats used for the transfer and explain the reason such data transfer appears to have occurred...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Establishment (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 274. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount of money transferred from the former Education Finance Board to the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund on the establishment day; if he will explain the way funds have been expended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40783/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Issues (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet the group Right to Peace around the issue of statutory redress services for survivors of institutional abuse; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40785/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Staff Remuneration (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 297. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the total salary cost for each Department for the most recent five years for which data is available. [40679/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Losses (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 306. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the jobs lost in Industrial Development Agency client companies for each salary band from €20,000, in bands of €10,000, for each year since 2007. [40674/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 307. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency for which a salary is in excess of €150,000 per year. [40675/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 308. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency in customer care, international sales and research and development for each year since 2007. [40677/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Numbers (1 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 309. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs promoted by the Industrial Development Agency that require a foreign language to native speaker level for each year since 2007. [40678/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Overseas Development Aid Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 23. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the way his Department is implementing commitments it has entered into as part of the International Aid Transparency Initiative processes. [41149/13]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Issues (2 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 35. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his attention has been drawn to the continued widespread human rights abuses by the Bahraini regime; the recent announcement of an Arab Court of Human Rights to be based in Bahrain when it is established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41159/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Central Bank of Ireland Investigations (3 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 25. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will instruct the Central Bank of Ireland to listen to and to forward on its comments on the rest of the Anglo Irish recordings to which it has access to the Gardaí and Director of Corporate Enforcement. [41510/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (8 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 61. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has carried out an impact analysis on increasing the pupil-teacher ratio in primary and post-primary schools. [42471/13]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (8 Oct 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: I do not know whether the Government will increase the pupil-teacher ratio next week. The Minister probably knows by now whether that will happen. If a decision is made to go down that road, can we get an assurance that some sort of impact analysis has been done on the effect an increase will have on schools? We already have 23% of pupils being taught in classrooms of more than 30 pupils....