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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average payment of voluntary contributions by parents per student for each of the past three years. [52749/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the top 30 rates of voluntary contributions required by schools here; the names of these schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52750/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Statistics (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of fee-paying schools here; and the number of fee-paying schools that offer the leaving certificate applied programme. [52845/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Statistics (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of non fee-paying schools here; and the number of non fee-paying schools that offer the leaving certificate applied programme. [52846/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of times a student may appeal a Student Universal Support Ireland decision; the steps in the appeals mechanism in total; the point at which an appeal may reach him or his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52858/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he intends to review the special needs assistant contract scheme to ensure that all schools are compliant with his Department's circulars. [52872/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 243. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of jobs created and the number of jobs lost for each year since 2007 in the manufacturing and in the financial services sector; the way these figures are determined; and if the recent figures are in line with the targets set by the Government for these sectors. [53033/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Work Placement Programmes (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 255. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the schools and educational institutions in which JobBridge interns have been taken on and in which they are currently employed since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52617/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Fire Service Issues (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 324. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his views on the development of fire service provision in County Cork; and if there will be an increase in employment in the fire services there during the next year. [52514/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Prevention (10 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 477. To ask the Minister for Health the funding available for community-based suicide awareness groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52570/13]

Bethany Home: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (11 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: Thankfully, I was not here last night to listen to the contribution of the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, because when I read the transcripts today I was rather shocked by some of the things she said. I was shocked because it was as if, when she walked into Government Buildings, someone had erased her memory. It was like something from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers", as if...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Exports Data (17 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 104. To ask the Taoiseach the value of exports, imports and trade surplus for the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector for each year since 2003. [53698/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Pharmaceutical Industry (17 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 274. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of persons employed in the pharmaceutical manufacturing sector each year since 2003. [53697/13]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Waiting Lists (17 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 385. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the number of persons on the social housing waiting list in Cork city on 1 December of each of the past six years. [53759/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Training and Education Programmes Certification (18 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 87. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if FÁS have ever certified someone as being qualified in a trade despite them not having completed an apprenticeship programme due to their practical experience; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54605/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (18 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 96. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will meet with representatives from Maynooth schools group to address their concerns regarding the proposed new post-primary school in Maynooth. [54588/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (18 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 97. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasons he feels there should be two separate post-primary schools located on the same site in Maynooth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54589/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (18 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has had a cost-benefit analysis conducted of plans to have two separate schools located on the same site in Maynooth, County Kildare; if he had a cost-benefit analysis conducted of a having one amalgamated school on the same location; if he will release this information to the public; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54590/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (18 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the members of the new schools establishment group were made aware of the error in the report to the new schools establishment group on the patronage of the new post primary school to be established in Maynooth in 2014, clarified by the forward planning section on 19 September 2012. [54678/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Establishment (18 Dec 2013)

Jonathan O'Brien: 105. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the error in the report to the New Schools Establishment Group, clarified by the Forward Planning Section on 19 September 2012, on the patronage of the new post primary school to be established in Maynooth in 2014 when he announced on 25 July 2012 the successful patron for the new post primary school to be...