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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 153. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will reverse the budget 2014 decision to impose a new training fee on apprentices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2343/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a review of teaching time in second level schools is to be carried out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2347/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Education Programmes (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures he is putting in place to facilitate persons who hope to pursue teaching as a career; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2346/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 590. To ask the Minister for Health the number of adults and children who are waiting to see a consultant allergist; the length of time they have been waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2375/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 591. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant allergists that are located here and the hospitals in which they are based; his plans to create further consultant allergist positions here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2376/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Response Times (21 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 592. To ask the Minister for Health if he will carry out an independent review of the circumstances which resulted in an ambulance taking at least 50 minutes to attend the scene of an accident; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2381/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital projects in County Donegal where funding will be made available in 2014; if funding will be made available in 2014 for the Cockhill Bridge in Buncrana; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2670/14]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 31. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the capital projects in County Donegal where funding will be made available in 2014; if funding will be made available in 2014 for the Bonagee Link Road Project in Letterkenny; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2671/14]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fuel Rebate Scheme (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 52. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to accommodate small hauliers within the fuel rebate scheme who are unable to buy diesel in bulk and who do not use a fuel card due to cash flow; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3095/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Weight of Schoolbags (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 71. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to implement the recommendations of the 1998 report of the working group on the weight of school bags, which include that no child should carry a school bag that weighs more than 10% of their body weight, that books should be for a single year and that more double classes should be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Appeals (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 181. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a single farm scheme appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3068/14]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: At the outset I thank the Minister, Deputy Quinn, for coming here today along with the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon. I also thank the officials for the preparatory work put into the briefing documents that have been put before us today. I thank the clerk to the committee for the briefing and assessments done by the secretariat for the Revised Estimate. There are a few questions in...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked about the minor works grant and the summer works scheme. From where did the money come in last year's Estimates to pay them? I should probably know the answer to the following question. The budget was brought forward to October this year, but is it still from 1 January?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: That is what I thought. Will the Minister confirm that the minor works grant was paid in November to all schools? If so, that means the grant was paid from last year's Estimates. From where did that money come? Is there any money allocated in the 2014 Estimates to pay the minor works grant? I presume the applications for the summer works scheme are only in so nothing has been paid yet...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Under which heading does the summer works scheme come?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I wished to raise the same issue. The fee had been dropped a number of years ago and introducing it at this time, when we are trying to encourage people to do an apprenticeship following the significant drop in numbers in recent times, makes it very difficult for those who are serving an apprenticeship to find the funding to do the course. At the early stages of the apprenticeship, the...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: On subhead C4, general current grants to universities, institutes of technology and other designated institutions of the Higher Education Authority and grant-in-aid, there is a difference of €73 million between the 2013 and 2014 Estimates. This computes to a reduction in the allocation of approximately 7%. I ask the Minister to explain this significant reduction. On student grants,...

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: An additional €26 million will be removed from post-graduate grants in the Estimates next year. Will the Minister comment on that and the impact it will have?

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I asked the Minister to comment or to give any view he may have on the impact that has on access to postgraduate courses.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2014
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills (Revised) (22 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Under which heading is the summer work scheme included?