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Other Questions: School Enrolments (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 101. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether it is appropriate for schools to request payment of a registration fee every year; and the measures he proposes to deal with this situation. [50116/13]

Other Questions: School Enrolments (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I am aware the Minister is bringing in a new enrolment policy to synchronise things across the system. This question relates to where parents are asked to pay money upon registering their children, not necessarily in terms of enrolling them but for subsequent years. Does the Minister have any plans to deal with that?

Other Questions: School Enrolments (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: I thank the Minister for his response. The statement was very strong. It is the case that a number of a schools are operating quite a skilful approach in a letter which appears to state that parents must register sons and daughters by a certain date and that there is a fee attached in a way that essentially blackmails or compels them to pay the money or where they feel compelled to pay the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 104. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the anomaly that full-time special needs assistants contracts are specified by the National Council for Special Education as 32 hours, but the contract of employment specifies the working hours as the hours the school is open to students, that is, 28 hours and 20 minutes for a primary school. [50114/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 342, 343 and 350 of 5 November 2013, if he will confirm that the financial implications regarding the annual student contribution for apprentices being pro rata, in relation to aviation apprentices where a model has been agreed with employers which requires them attending college for a full year, could...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which the decision to change the funding model for apprentices before the review of the Irish apprenticeship training model which he has initiated has been completed. [50112/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any analysis has been undertaken into the cumulative effect of cutbacks in learning supports at primary level for children with special needs, Traveller supports and support for children for whom English is not their first language in terms of the impact on teachers' ability to manage the class and deliver a level of education that meets...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure that Irish Bank Resolution Corporation and the purchasers of its mortgages offer the exact same consumer protections offered by mainstream banks, namely, the code of conduct on mortgage arrears, the Central Bank's targets for offering long-term solutions to those in arrears, that is, split mortgages, and the Financial Services Ombudsman...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 167. To ask the Minister for Finance regarding Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage holders, if he will ensure transparency and information on the potential buyers and the price the mortgages are being sold at, proper communication, and not letters from the liquidator which are impossible to understand for ordinary consumers; for persons to be allowed to match the best offer being made...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 169. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will ensure in regard to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgages that any purchaser only changes mortgage interest rates in line with changes in the ECB rate to prevent a potential purchaser from hiking up rates to unsustainable levels. [50356/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: IBRC Mortgage Loan Book (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 170. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will encourage AIB, PTSB and other State owned banks to be flexible in offering remortgage deals to Irish Bank Resolution Corporation mortgage holders. [50357/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 232. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a permanent extension to a school (details supplied) in County Dublin. [50474/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Adoption Services Provision (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 564. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has instructed the Adoption Authority of Ireland to carry out an extensive audit of all of its files and all accredited bodies as part of an investigation into seeking information about illegal adoptions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50159/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 602. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of general practitioners, GMS and non-GMS, currently working here; the number of GPs who qualified from the training schemes in the past five years still working here; the number of GPs that will be needed to provide universal health care to the population by 2016; and the plans in place to meet the shortfall. [50341/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 603. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the progress of the working group headed by Professor Brian MacCraith, President of DCU to look at general practitioner recruitment issues; and if representations have been sought from the IMO, ICGP and NEG; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50342/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (26 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: 604. To ask the Minister for Health in relation to the 217 general practitioners who have taken up GMS lists since the opening of the scheme, the number already working as assistants in a practice; and the number of GPs that have applied for the GMS lists that were advertised in the last year. [50343/13]

Forestry Bill 2013: Second Stage (Resumed) (27 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: Yes, who is at a Whips meeting but I will waffle on until she joins us. This is a hugely important issue and I am happy to contribute to the debate on it. The Bill is modest but it gives us the opportunity to discuss the importance of forestry to the economy currently but also in terms of its potential in the future. The Bill contains some worthwhile measures but we need to do much more....

Bond Repayments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: In a Chamber noted for its brass necks, tonight's performance almost beat all. To have to listen to Deputy Spring, who is a former Anglo Irish Bank employee and who contested an election on a programme of Labour's way or Frankfurt's way, ridicule this motion takes some beating. This individual bragged about the Greek economy being on its knees and somehow thought that was something to crow...

Bond Repayments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: Is that right? I have seen him and have listened to him. The Minister of State, Deputy McGinley, might show me the courtesy of listening because his party-----

Bond Repayments: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Nov 2013)

Clare Daly: -----fought his election on a lie and it is now being held to account for its record, or lack of it, and not Fianna Fáil. Will the Government instruct our banks to invest our money not in dead banks, but in jobs because the only way in which this economy will recover is by putting people to work? Contrary to the claptrap from the some of the Government backbenchers, the people know...