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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (2 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 75. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who were awarded Student Universal Support Ireland fee and maintenance grants for the 2013/14 academic year; the number of these students who were subsequently informed they were not entitled to same; the number of these students who have been told they will have to refund moneys to SUSI; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (2 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 88. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason teachers who graduated with the Department of Education Commercial Teachers Diploma are not treated equitably in the PCW agreement and its implementation in circular letter, CL18/97; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28741/14]

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister made a number of appointments to the board of Bord na Móna last week. It is widely recognised that at least two of those appointments were influenced by the political affiliations of the individuals involved. In addition, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, recently appointed a long-serving Fine Gael activist to the board of NAMA. Even the Minister for Arts,...

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is true. When will the Government cease flouting its own rules on filling publicly funded appointments to State boards by adhering to the public appointments system?

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: The arrogance and sense of self-importance evident in the Minister's reply are indicative of everything that is rotten at the heart of this Government. Let us speak about Lynn Boylan.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Minister knows as well as I do, or perhaps he does not know because he does not have much-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am asking a supplementary question. The position in regard to appointments to North-South implementation bodies - the Minister knows this well and should stop trying to deflect from the issue of his cronyism - is that appointees are nominated and agreed by all parties mandated to the North-South Ministerial Council, including the Labour Party.

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: The cronyism displayed by this Government in recent weeks in stacking State boards is clear for all to see. Perhaps it is one of the Minister's last acts in Government-----

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: My supplementary question is the same as my original question, which was not answered. When will this Government adhere to its own policy in regard to appointments to State boards?

Leaders' Questions (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: When will Ministers stop engaging in the Fianna Fáil-style politics of cronyism?

Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: There should be further debate on this motion in the House, so we oppose this.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am not a member of the committee.

Order of Business (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: There are a number of reports outstanding from the Constitutional Convention. It was the desire of Government to try to discuss some of them in the Chamber before the summer recess. We are running out of time, so what is the current position in regard to those reports being discussed?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Data (3 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third level students who registered as students in universities and ITs during each of the past ten years; the number of these students who dropped out in the first semester during each of the past ten years in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28776/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Education and Training Boards Places (8 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria used by education training boards when moving VTOS positions to different parts of the county, with particular reference to a move of a number of positions from Tallaght to Balbriggan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29673/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Education and Training Boards Places (8 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I asked about the criteria and the process undertaken to enable the ETB to move the VTOS posts from Tallaght to Balbriggan. Nobody doubts Balbriggan is in dire need of additional training places and these VTOS places will be welcomed by the community. However, it does not make sense to take them from a community such as Tallaght. The Minister of State knows Tallaght as well as any other...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Education and Training Boards Places (8 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I understand that the ETBs have full control over where they allocate the places. The Minister has outlined to some degree the rationale behind the decision. Dublin and Dún Laoghaire ETB has 150 VTOS places because that is the number it can afford to fund. It is unacceptable that the Minister has taken 20 places from a community such as Tallaght, which has major disadvantage, high...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Third Level Courses Availability (8 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 58. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 83 of 26 June 2014, if his attention has been drawn to the fact that his Department has in the past allocated funding to students undertaking the adult learning bachelor of arts course demonstrating at least limited departmental recognition of the value of such a course; the capacity for funding for a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Third Level Courses Availability (8 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: As the Department already provided some funding to the students when the EU globalisation fund ran out, the Minister is well aware of the success and merits of the particular programme. All but one of the students who took part in the programme has gone on to employment or further education. He is also aware that All Hallows is involved in a consultation period currently, mostly concerned...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Third Level Courses Availability (8 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I understand that they are autonomous. However, in light of the success of the ALBA programme, I wonder if dialogue is going to take place with DCU, which is the accrediting college in this instance. Have discussions taken place with All Hallows in the context of the course being provided under, for example, a social enterprise model? We are talking about people who were out of formal...