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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 384. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to direct management of a school (details supplied) to the legislation that governed how the recent STEM funding competition was run and managed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11825/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 400. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills how the staff and students at a school (details supplied) in County Tipperary will engage in STEM activities in the school to the same standard as their neighbouring school that received €10,000 in funding; if the inspectorate will be cognisant of the disparity in funding when assessing schools; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 385. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what oversight measures were in place for the recent STEM grant competition; if the records of how this competition was conducted are available to school management to review and if so, how does one access the same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11826/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 386. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the lottery system used in the recent STEM grants were the fairest way to divide the available resources; if it is his intention to continue to fund essential educational services in this manner; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11827/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 398. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a lottery was held when the number of applications for the STEM grant exceeded expectations; if she will point to the relevant area in the documentation issued to schools prior to the competition, where it states that a lottery would take place if the number of applications passed a certain threshold; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 399. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills what criteria, if any, applied to the reading of the application by a school (details supplied) for the STEM grant; if she will provide feedback to school management on the application and where it did not meet the criteria outlined to the school in documentation received from her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 401. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the additional STEM grants that will made available in 2024, will be of lower or higher value than those awarded in December 2023; if so, the level of funding that can be expected; if it will be made available exclusively for the remaining approximately 2,000 unsuccessful schools; if so, when; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) concerning the allocation of home tuition hours; the status of this case; the timeframe for when a decision will be issued on same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12658/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 515. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review correspondence from a school (details supplied); what financial assistance can be offered to this school to assist it with the critical financial situation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider extending the temporary development contribution waiver scheme (details supplied); if he will seek to have all dates extended by a minimum 18 months to allow large housing developments which commence just before the current 24 April 2024 deadline adequate time to complete the works satisfactorily; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 978. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will examine the case of persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11932/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (20 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 1478. To ask the Minister for Health if he will examine a matter concerning the lack of administrative support staff working in the oncology department of the HSE primary care centre on Mitchel Street, Thurles (details supplied); if he will provide an update on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12856/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 286. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that funding is provided to allow for the employment of the required neurologist for the Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise; if he will confirm that they have received correspondence from the Neurological Alliance of Ireland who is campaigning to have a neurologist situated in the Midland Regional Hospital, Portlaoise (details supplied);...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Men's Sheds (21 Mar 2024)

Michael Lowry: 336. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she will introduce an annual men’s shed sustainability grant system to help with their running costs, for items such as electricity and insurance bills, similar to the one issued in 2023; if she will consider providing funding for small capital works projects; if she will make such grants available directly to individual...

Taoiseach a Ainmniú - Nomination of Taoiseach (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: I will be supporting the nomination of Simon Harris as Taoiseach. I could join in the sound bite populist chorus of negativity. I could contend that everything in the country is a disaster and demand a general election. That might make better headlines but that is not my style of politics. There is no denying we have serious problems in housing, in health, particularly at University...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: 192. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an update on the progress being made to improve a dangerous and busy junction on the outskirts of Thurles, County Tipperary, where Turtulla Cross on the N62 has been the site of a number of serious and fatal crashes over the years; what safety works and junction redesign can be carried out at this junction on the N62 to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: 531. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 88 of 10 May 2023, if she will provide an update concerning the school bus transport scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15007/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: 532. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on plans to overhaul the school transport system and the abolishing the "nearest school" rule, which requires a student applying to the school transport scheme to attend the school closest to their home; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15008/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: 972. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if conversion of conifer crops to native woodland is permitted under the Native Woodland Conservation scheme 2023-2027 recently launched by his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14210/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Forestry Sector (9 Apr 2024)

Michael Lowry: 973. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if applications for Native Woodland Conservation lodged with his Department under the previous forestry programme for the NWC scheme and entail the conversion of conifer forests to native woodland in areas of high ecological and water quality values, as encouraged by his Department, will be eligible under the native woodland...