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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 295. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the budget or funding that has been allocated for Irish Nonprofits Knowledge Exchange; if there was a tendering process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4958/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Funding (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 296. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the objectives that have been set for Irish Nonprofits Knowledge Exchange; the timeframe; the way its performance will be measured; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 509. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department plans to defund the education of any children whose parents object to their information going on the primary online database, POD; if so, the statutory basis for that action; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4471/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 510. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the primary online database and the Data Protection Commissioner, following her statement that the Data Protection Commissioner had approved retaining children's data until they were at least 30, and following the Data Protection Commissioner’s statement that it seems to be the case that there is an inadequate...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Data Protection (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 511. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the Data Protection Commissioner's statement on the primary online database that there is an inadequate explanation as to why they need it and why they need to hold it for as long as they are holding it, if she or her Department alerted schools that compliance with the POD database plan may be a breach of their duties as data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 512. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been spent on the primary online database project since its inception; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4474/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 513. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department hired or engaged any external expertise to advise them on data protection or data governance in relation to the primary online database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4475/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 514. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in her Department that have been designated with administrator rights in the primary online database; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4476/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the primary online database plan will allow for data to be automatically synchronised with commercial databases used by schools; the details or control that her Department holds relating to the encryption, storage and access rights over data in those commercial databases; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4477/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Public Private Partnerships Data (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 565. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the role of elected officials in a public-private partnership project between a local authority and a private company, with particular reference to reporting requirements and the provision of information to, and at the request of, elected members by the private partner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4469/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Arts Funding (3 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the requirements for the provision of art work under the per cent art scheme whereby the public partner in the PPP is a local authority and has provided land for development as part of the partnership; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4470/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances Provision (5 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 218. To ask the Minister for Health the annual budget for wheelchair provision in County Wicklow from 2011 to 2014; the number of wheelchairs supplied to County Wicklow in 2012 and 2014; if he will provide a breakdown of the number of new wheelchair models and re-used wheelchair models supplied; and the number of clients that were referred to Seattech or the Central Remedial Clinic for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Tuition Scheme (10 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 528. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 488 of 27 January 2015, where she stated that the home tuition was operated in a consistent and equitable manner, the reason her Department agreed to pay 48 hours at the higher qualified rate to one company per letter dated 3 October 2013, and agreed to pay another company a lower amount of only 20 hours...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting Applications (12 Feb 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 151. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if a self-employed person may obtain Garda vetting for the purposes of providing courses in a secondary level school; if not, her plans to extend Garda vetting to the self-employed and to sole traders; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6381/15]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (3 Mar 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on whether an important element of education is involved in the work of preschool child care professionals such as Montessori teachers; her further views on whether this group of workers should be supported in professional development and with terms and conditions comparable to those of primary school teachers; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (3 Mar 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: My question relates to early childhood care and education professionals. I am sure the Minister is aware that there is growing evidence of the educational impact and importance of the preschool phase of childhood care and education. There has been an historical reluctance on the part of the State to consider the educational aspect of childhood development. Does the Minister accept the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (3 Mar 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome the Minister's agreement and interest in the educational component. Research from around the world shows that investment at preschool age, whether at two, three or four years of age, is the most effective investment a state can make in education. The problem is as follows. On the one hand, the Government is stating it takes it very seriously, values child care professionals,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Early Child Care Education (3 Mar 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: I welcome what sounds like a very useful step in the right direction. Let me reframe the answer given by the Minister. Let us imagine she gives that answer about primary school teachers, saying we value them, that we are putting together an interdepartmental group and examining the minimum wage. Regardless of what we say, what interdepartmental groups are set up and how much we say we...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Recruitment (3 Mar 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 319. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she will provide in tabular form details of the allocation of new Garda recruits due to be sworn in during May 2015 on a district basis; and the process and factors considered for that district allocation. [8937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Child Care Qualifications (3 Mar 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: 465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the involvement her Department should have in setting the training, educational and professional development requirements and standards preschool child care professionals should have; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9069/15]