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Other Questions: Summer Works Scheme Expenditure (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I too welcome the fact there will be a minor works grant and a summer works scheme this year. The fact the Minister discontinued it last year left a lot of schools in a very difficult situation. The CPSMA, which is the management body for 90% of primary schools, indicated that half of our primary schools are in debt. Fund-raising events are taking place left, right and centre in every...

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

Charlie McConalogue: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his response to the recommendations of the recent National Council for Special Education research report, Moving to Further and Higher Education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50226/13]

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

Charlie McConalogue: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he will receive the report of the National Council for Special Education working group on a new model for the allocation of teaching supports for children with special educational needs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50224/13]

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

Charlie McConalogue: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he considers educational supports for pupils with Down's syndrome to be adequate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50227/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Property Taxation Administration (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 200. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will amend the Finance (Local Property Tax) Act 2012, to ensure that a person who is in ownership of a property on 1 November 2013 but who sells the property before the end of 2013 is exempted from having to pay the LPT for 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50814/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the precise feeder area for a school (details supplied); if he will include maps and/or list of estates included in the feeder area; if the feeder area has changed from Ballinteer-Stepaside as recommended by FPS in 2012 to Stepaside-Carrickmines; if so, when this change occurred and the criteria used for making this change; the criteria used...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 226. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) is being permanently moved out of Stepaside to a site in Ballyogan, Carrickmines; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50372/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Referendum Campaigns (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 230. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total number of schools in the country that were closed to facilitate polling for the Seanad referendum on the 4 October 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50468/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Referendum Campaigns (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 231. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total cost to his Department in payments made to teachers who were unable to work the day of the Seanad referendum on 4 October 2013 as their school was closed to facilitate polling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50469/13]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Industrial Development (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 313. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation further to Parliamentary Question No. 135 of 28 February 2013, if he will provide an update on whether the Industrial Development Agency Ireland has delivered on assurances which his Department received from IDA Ireland that it will in 2013 seek to target more than 130 new investments, secure €500 million of research and...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 520. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged areas payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50170/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Payments (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 521. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50171/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 532. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a single farm payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50332/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged areas scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50366/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Inter-Country Adoptions (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 571. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the progress to date regarding inter-country adoption; the progress that the Adoption Authority of Ireland has made in establishing arrangements with the Hague Convention countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50576/13]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (26 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 670. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if funding was allocated in budget 2014 for a bridge project (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50629/13]

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 8. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the specific projects that he plans for County Donegal arising from Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012 - 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50565/13]

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: My question is to ask the Minister the specific projects he has planned for County Donegal arising from Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012 - 2016. Specifically I would like the Minister to outline the projects he has planned as part of that. His Department is spending more than €500 million per year on capital projects in the coming years. Can the Minister give an assurance...

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked the Minister specifically for the specific projects he has planned for County Donegal under Infrastructure and Capital Investment 2012 - 2016. The Minister is spending approximately €500 million in capital under that programme in the coming years. He made no reference to any project in his answer. He barely referred to the capital investment plan. With due respect, all I...

Other Questions: Regional Development (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister has a plan for 2012 to 2016. It is the capital infrastructure development plan. I am well aware that other Departments are involved in road projects but I am putting those as three specific projects that could help create jobs. I have asked the Minister if there is anything in his plan that could assist the county. So far, all we have got from the Minister is generalities....