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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Programmes (12 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 80. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the policy programmes in his Department that cover the early years and preschool sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53631/13]

Topical Issue Debate: Book Rental Scheme (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: When this announcement was made in the budget it was very much welcomed by schools across the country which struggle on a yearly basis to keep book rental schemes alive in order to ensure that students and families have as low a cost as is possible in attending school. It was with shock that many of those schools learned that funding will only be provided to a quarter of all primary schools,...

Topical Issue Debate: Book Rental Scheme (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Unfortunately, the response has been very disappointing. The Government is giving no recognition whatever to the many schools which have made a Trojan effort to get book rental schemes off the ground in the past few years. As I indicated, some schools may only have a scheme running for only one subject or year, and they will be excluded from this funding. The schools which have not yet...

Topical Issue Debate: Book Rental Scheme (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: Those which have made an effort up to now will get no assistance.

Topical Issue Debate: Book Rental Scheme (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister of State to go back to the Minister for Education and Skills and ask-----

Topical Issue Debate: Book Rental Scheme (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: -----for this structure to be reviewed.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 86. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her plans to implement the recommendations outlined in the report commissioned by Donegal County child care committee supporting working families, Releasing the Brake on Economic Growth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53855/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Costs (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 95. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the level of funding available within her Department to implement the recommendations outlined in the report commissioned by Donegal County child care committee supporting working families, Releasing the Brake on Economic Growth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53845/13]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 142. To ask the Minister for Finance the changes in budget 2014 in relation to capital gains tax for business people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53904/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools that have lost a teacher in County Donegal as a result of the revised schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53737/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Issues (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason he is refusing to give any information in view of the fact that the review is now complete by the Information Commissioner regarding his Department's qualification, the secondary school teacher's drawing certificate to a person (details supplied) in Dublin 6W who met the conditions for this particular certificate in 1972 and was not...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when funding will be made available for ongoing maintenance and replacement of computer equipment in the design and communication graphics room in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53920/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the computer stock provided to implement the T4 subjects no longer have the capacity to operate the revised software designed to deliver the curriculum; when he plans to put a grant-aided purchasing framework in place to provide for the replacement of this computer stock in schools; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 207. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher Gaelscoileanna in non Gaeltacht areas by county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53928/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher minority faith schools in each county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53929/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 209. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher schools in each county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53930/13]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Numbers (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 210. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of one, two, three, four and five teacher Gaelscoileanna in Gaeltacht areas in each county at the end of September 2011, 2012 and 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53931/13]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Care Services Provision (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 515. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will confirm that funding will continue to be made available in 2014 through Pobal to a preschool (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54028/13]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Lottery Funding Applications (17 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 546. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding an application for national lottery funding in respect of an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53736/13]

Other Questions: Wild Atlantic Way Project (19 Dec 2013)

Charlie McConalogue: 8. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to designate Malin Head, Ireland's most northerly point, as the natural starting/ending point of the Wild Atlantic Way; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54403/13]