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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 276. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the funding that will be allocated for the development and establishment of apprenticeships in new occupational areas in 2015 and in 2016. [30756/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the situation faced by many Irish students currently enrolled in the EURSC-European Schools who have sat the European Baccalaureate in 2014 and have been told that they will need to re-sit exams despite Vice President and Commissioner Sefcovic having assured the European Parliament that all necessary steps...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 299. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 257 of 8 July 2014 the legal basis for excluding the actions of the independent appeals officer of Caranua. [31349/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Residential Institutions Statutory Fund Board (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 300. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 258 of 8 July 2014, the reason the information requested is not available; if Caranua know the number of persons who applied for payments from the old Education Finance Board who subsequently applied for payments from Caranua; the reason providing the numbers alone would breach their data protection...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 310. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 78 of 8 July 2014, the date on which the Teaching Council will provide a report on proposals from the technical working group on the matter of teacher supply for priority subject; and the deadlines they have been given. [31411/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Building Regulations Qualifications (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 491. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if Sustainable Eneregy Ireland has finished its consultation with Quality and Qualifications Ireland; if a building energy ratings assessor training course will be available in September 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31192/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Stations Refurbishment (15 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 582. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide an update on the construction of a new Garda station or the refurbishment of the existing Garda station in Glanmire, County Cork. [31145/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I welcome Mr. Healy and Ms Griffin to the meeting and I thank them for their presentations. I have two questions, which are both directed to Mr. Healy. He referred in his presentation to the 80 new therapy posts approved for funding in 2014. I understand there has been a delay in advertising those positions and they have not been filled as of today. I ask Mr. Healy to clarify the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: Will it be rolled out on a phased basis?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: All 80 of them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: How many therapy posts will be needed in total?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: We hope so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: I concur with what Ms Griffin said in regard to National Educational Psychological Service and there being a cap on individual schools. I know from experience that there are huge difficulties for teaching staff in having to decide which students will be assessed. In the particular school I have in mind, there was a class with five students all requiring an assessment and all in receipt of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Special Educational Needs Provision: National Council for Special Education and Health Service Executive (16 Jul 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: That is important because some parents feel that staying in the public system carries more weight. That is obviously not the case but it is the perception that there will be questions about the qualifications of the private assessor and whether that report will be accepted. All of those issues can be addressed easily by relaying information.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Security of the Elderly (17 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 193. To ask the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the fact that many older persons have received notification that they are now liable to pay VAT on all personal security alarms, placing an immediate 23% increase on the cost of these alarms which are no longer subsidised through the telephone allowance; if these personal alarms given under the seniors alert scheme, could...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Research and Development Funding (17 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 376. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the percentage of GDP spent on research and development during each of the past four years. [33707/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Closed Circuit Television Systems (17 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 572. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the number of CCTV cameras currently in operation throughout the State. [33236/14]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Property Services Regulatory Authority Remit (17 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 588. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the average length of time for processing complaints made to the Property Services Regulatory Authority. [33499/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (17 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 714. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of personnel that are employed by the newly established Child and Family Services; the number of these positions that have been filled by public advertisement; the number that were filled internally by appointment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32976/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Remit (17 Sep 2014)

Jonathan O'Brien: 728. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the position regarding the work of the Child and Family Agency to support parents to adopt positive parenting practices with the aim of eliminating corporal punishment here; the number of positive parenting programmes that are being provided to this aim throughout the State through family resource centres or other agencies; if an audit...