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Other Questions: Bullying in Schools (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 25. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied that anti-bullying campaigns in schools have sufficient resources; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16465/14]

Other Questions: Bullying in Schools (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for that update. Obviously, the implementation of the anti-bullying plan involves everyone within a school and it is important that everyone works together to ensure that students are kept safe and that there is a happy environment within the school. With reference to the guidance counsellor role, the Minister of State, Deputy Cannon, took the earlier direct question...

Other Questions: Bullying in Schools (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The approach we are seeing from the Minister and the policy he has adopted very much diminishes the importance of the guidance counsellor role vis-à-visother teaching roles in schools. One would not send a teacher qualified in Irish to teach English unless he or she also had a qualification in English. Likewise, one would not have someone who was unqualified teaching a maths class; nor...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 17. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the future funding of third level education and the student registration charge; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16468/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Guidance Counsellors (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the feedback his Department has received from secondary schools on the impact of his cuts to guidance counselling hours; if he will commit to revisiting his decision to remove the specific allocation to schools for guidance counselling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16469/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 142. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a payment under the AEO scheme will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16865/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Trans European Transport Network Programme (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 187. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when a reply will issue to the interim response LV/1363; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16834/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Leadership in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the witnesses for coming in. We discussed continuous professional development. Is there a case for stipulating that one needs a specific qualification, such as a masters degree, for the role? In other professions one must be qualified as one moves up. The early years sector is being professionalised. Many members and witnesses have outlined the importance of leadership in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Leadership in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Could the witnesses also comment on the role of the principal as secretary to the board of management?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Leadership in Schools: Discussion (9 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: With regard to principal days, and this refers to national schools that do not have a walking principal, could the representatives of NAPD comment on how they work? Each principal has a certain number of days each year which they are allowed to fill with substitute teachers. Undoubtedly, there is a knock-on effect in terms of continuity in the classroom. Perhaps they would comment on the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Jobseeker's Allowance Payments (10 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 92. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if a system can be put in place for part time fishermen to allow their claim for jobseeker's allowance to be dealt with immediately due to the fact that fishermen who make a claim when they come off a boat can wait for up to two weeks to receive an appointment with her Department to assess their application for jobseeker's and therefore can find...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 120. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the number of Industrial Development Agency visits to County Donegal in 2013, Quarter 1, 2014; the number of confirmed visits for the remainder of 2014, together with his plans on the way his Department are actively encouraging companies to relocate in County Donegal; his further plans to increase the level of IDA grant aid given to...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: IDA Site Visits (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 123. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the Industrial Development Agency Ireland has delivered on assurances which his Department received from IDA Ireland that it would in 2013 seek to target more than 130 new investments, secure €500 million of research and development expenditure and create 13,000 new jobs in its client companies; the element of new...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Code (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 194. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will provide details of the tax implications on a transaction which involves two farmers swapping small parcels of land without any financial compensation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17697/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Placement (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 227. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the current lack of secondary school places in the Castleknock-Carpenterstown area of Dublin; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17395/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Services Provision (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 234. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to change the qualifying criteria for July provision to include children with Down's syndrome regardless of their IQ; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17520/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide in tabular form the number of legacy posts which have been lost as a result of changes made in budget 2012; the years in which the posts were lost; the names of the schools which lost a legacy post together with the DEIS status of the school from which the post was lost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17719/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Guidance Counsellors (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 246. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with reference to a reply to a parliamentary question dated 7 March 2014 (details supplied), if he considers the support provided in second level schools by a professionally qualified guidance counsellor to all students, as set out in section 9(c) of the Education Act 1998, to be valuable but not in any way a requirement to effectively deliver...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 265. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding an application for a new school building (details supplied); if a site has been identified; the location of the site; when planning permission will be submitted; if a start date in 2015 is still feasible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17934/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Appeals (15 Apr 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 518. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal under the disadvantaged area scheme in respect of a person, details supplied, in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17400/14]