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Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Data (15 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 841. To ask the Minister for Health when the legislation will be passed which will allow families with children aged five years and under to apply for a GP medical card as announced in budget 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1183/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (15 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 960. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reduce staffing levels and remove services at Malin Head Coast Guard station; his plans to deal with the upcoming retirements at the station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1664/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (15 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 961. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if Malin Head coastal radio station will remain open on a 24-hour basis in view of a recent article in a publication (details supplied) which suggested it was to be reduced to a 12-hour station; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1665/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Coast Guard Services (15 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 962. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the current staffing levels at Malin Head coastal radio station; the total number of hours and cost of overtime at the station for 2012 and 2013; the ideal number of whole-time equivalents required to provide a 24-hour service at the station without the need for overtime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1666/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: General Scheme of Education (Admission to Schools) Bill 2013: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I join our chairman in welcoming all of our guests and thank them for taking the time very much in an individual capacity to access this Bill and come forward with their very considered thoughts on it and their proposals on how it may be improved. As this is our third hearing on this Bill, we have discussed many of the issues with which our guests have dealt. I do not have too many...

Irish Water: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I support the motion tabled by my colleague, Deputy Cowen, that Irish Water be brought under freedom of information legislation about which the Minister and Government are reluctant. The one question which is central to how this issue has been mishandled by the Minister and the Government is about where the public stands in this whole issue. How is the public being considered in terms of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Better Energy Homes Scheme Administration (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans for the better energy home scheme and the reason his Department is penalising this sector under the new home renovation incentive scheme by introducing the rule that qualifying expenditure over €4,405 plus VAT under this scheme will be reduced by three times the amount of any grant for the works as opposed to being reduced by the total...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade in Tobacco (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 34. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost to the State in 2011, 2012 and 2013 of the illegal cigarette trade; the procedures and plans his Department have in place to tackle this growing problem especially in Border counties in view of the fact that a nationwide survey found that 24.5% of cigarettes sold in Letterkenny are illegal compared to a national average of 13%; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a school (details supplied) in County Donegal has not been included in the five year building programme in view of the fact that a site has been obtained since November 2012 in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2086/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing Appeals Mechanism (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 105. 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. [2125/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: National Monuments (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 128. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if any provision has been made in the 2014 Office of Public Works budget to take a castle (details supplied) in County Donegal under State care; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2088/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Environment Protection Scheme Payments (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when 2013 REP scheme payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1829/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (16 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a reply will issue to correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2124/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of all primary schools with fewer than five mainstream teachers; the cumulative effect of the budgets he has introduced on the pupil-teacher ratios in these schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2609/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: In light of the Minister's promises when Opposition spokesperson for education to protect pupil-teacher ratios in schools, I would like him to give an outline of the percentage of all our schools which have five teachers or fewer. Also, what he has done - or has not done, more to the point - to protect pupil-teacher ratios in those schools since he came to office? I ask him to give a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for his response. He has indicated that 48% of all primary schools have fewer than five teachers, yet we constantly hear the refrain from him and the Government that in office he has managed to protect the pupil-teacher ratio. However, he is admitting to the fact here today that since he came to office he has very significantly increased the pupil-teacher ratio for...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister is showing a complete lack of appreciation of the demands in those schools with fewer teachers. In many instances multi-class teaching is taking place. One teacher could be taking up to three classes. In such schools it is important, therefore, that the pupil-teacher ratio is lower. What is the Minister's agenda in putting the burden of the cuts on the half of schools that do...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: It has been reduced every year.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Book Rental Scheme (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason the new book rental scheme is not available to all schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2610/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Book Rental Scheme (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: My question is to ask specifically why the new schoolbook rental scheme is not available to all schools. I ask the Minister to highlight in particular why schools that set up their book rental schemes in the past year or two, on the advice of the Department and with the encouragement of the Minister, in many instances going into debt in the process, are being excluded. The Minister is now...