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Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 9. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of new jobs created by the Industrial Development Agency in County Donegal in 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50564/13]

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: This question is more specific in terms of the figures for County Donegal, in particular in regard to the IDA. Will the Minister give details of the number of new jobs created by the IDA in County Donegal in 2013?

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the fact we are seeing an increase in the number of jobs created at national level. The 58,000 jobs created in the past year are very welcome. That is the way we all want to see our country move. We want to see more people getting back to work but since 2011, we have seen unemployment grow in the Border region. The figures out yesterday show that in the Border region,...

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The encouraging stream of site visits by the IDA to the county, to which the Minister referred, was a total of one in 2012. There have been four visits this year. Unfortunately, under his leadership, there have been very few site visits and little new investment in the county. The Minister pointed out that companies there continue to expand but those companies are already there. We need...

Other Questions: Job Creation Data (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: The county has the highest unemployment rate in the country. The county is not doing well.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision can be expected on a student grant appeal (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50869/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Payments (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive a letter from Student Universal Support Ireland informing them of their application number, provisional eligibility and checklist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50920/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the student grant appeals board will confirm a grant in respect of a person (details supplied); when same will be awarded; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51002/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to the total of some 40,000 student grants awarded by Student Universal Support Ireland up to end October 2013, the number of those that were renewals; the number that were first time applications; of the remaining applications to be processed, the number that are renewed; the number that are first time applications; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 90. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the position with regard to the ethos of a particular school (details supplied) in County Kildare. [51068/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the process by which a new school was established as a community college rather than as a junior/senior model school; if he will report on the type of school recommended by parents and by an independent report; and the reason a decision was made in advance of publication of this report (details supplied). [51069/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Framework for the Junior Cycle: Discussion with ASTI, IHRC and Irish Heart Foundation (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome our guests from the ASTI, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the Irish Heart Foundation on the very important topic of the junior certificate which will have key ramifications for the curriculum and the type of course and direction that secondary school education takes in the coming years. I apologise for missing the first part of the ASTI presentation. There are a few points...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Framework for the Junior Cycle: Discussion with ASTI, IHRC and Irish Heart Foundation (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I will be very brief. I have a question for the Irish Human Rights Commission. In regard to civic, social and political education, CSPE, and PE, schools are critical in terms of how people are set up for life. Those are two very important skills. We do a lot on the academic side but the other skills people need are in those two particular subjects. The History Teachers' Association...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Framework for the Junior Cycle: Discussion with ASTI, IHRC and Irish Heart Foundation (27 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the representatives of the ASTI comment on the fact that under the junior certificate there will be far more papers which be neither higher nor ordinary level? There will be equalisation or one level only. What are the thoughts of the ASTI on that? One key rationale behind reform is to try to ensure that everyone stays engaged, and, in particular, that young men do not become...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 32. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she has carried out an analysis of the impact her changes to farm assist with respect to income disregards have had on farmers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50845/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Farm Assist Scheme Payments (28 Nov 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 33. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will consider reversing the changes she made to farm assist in view of the fact that they have had a serious negative effect on the income levels of already struggling farming families; if she has carried out an analysis of the impact of the changes for those families; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50846/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Correspondence (3 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51965/13]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Labour Court Recommendations (3 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 129. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he will implement the Labour Court recommendation for community employment scheme supervisors and assistant supervisors; the reasons this has not been implemented to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51553/13]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance Eligibility (3 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 155. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients who were in receipt of domiciliary care allowance who have been found ineligible for disability allowance on reaching the age of 16 since January 2013; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51334/13]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Payments (3 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 339. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment of a disadvantaged area scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51520/13]