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Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am sure the Minister is very well aware of the media attention on the proposed Munster technological university in recent days. Today, the Teachers' Union of Ireland lodged a dispute with the Labour Relations Commission. I do not know whether that affects what can be said on the matter. The press releases from the TUI in recent days outline some of the concerns it has raised. It is fair...

Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank the Minister for her reply. However, she failed to deal with the crux of the issue, namely, the fact that the TUI has now lodged a dispute with the LRC. She also failed to address any of the concerns the TUI has raised about the process, for example, the fact that it has no confidence in any aspect of it. We now face a situation where the very people who are being asked to deliver...

Topical Issue Debate: Technological Universities (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: So no process is being put in place.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 114. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of reversing the cuts to the school completion programme which were implemented under this Government. [6176/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Closures (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she or her Department have legal grounds to prevent a school closure or amalgamation; and the legal provision in which this is contained. [6169/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Amalgamation (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide, in tabular form, details of the schools which have amalgamated or closed during each year since 2010, including names, locations, school patrons, the number of pupils in each school, and the schools which amalgamated together. [6170/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way her Department defines rural schools. [6171/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has a definition for strategically important small schools; and if so, the number there are within the State. [6172/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide the details of in-service training for teachers on combatting bullying in schools. [6177/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Bullying in Schools (11 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the idea of developing an all-Ireland anti-bullying strategy for schools. [6178/15]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Investigations (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 304. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of the investigation by An Garda Síochána into the incident involving the Minister for Social Protection at Jobstown, Dublin 24. [6835/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 429. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of new primary schools and secondary schools established during each of the years, 2008; 2009; 2010; 2011; 2012; 2013; 2014; and the number of new schools projected for development over the next two years. [6669/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 430. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of resource teachers and special needs assistants who will be asked to transfer to new schools, or will lose their positions, when the National Council for Special Education reconfigures special education needs resource hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6670/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Qualifications (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the operation of regulation 5 of the Teaching Council (Registration) Regulations 2009; if a transition arrangement was introduced by the Teaching Council to provide teachers, working before April 2013, time to acquire a recognised qualification; the details of the transition arrangement; the number of people...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the level of funding that would be required to reduce the current teacher:student ratio of 1:23, in the Irish university sector to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development average of 1:14. [6966/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 462. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the date on which the new allocation system for special educational needs resources will be in place in all schools. [7050/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 463. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the time frame provided to her Department officials to design a pilot of the new model allocation system for special educational needs resources in schools; and the number of schools she envisages participating in the pilot scheme. [7051/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Council for Special Education (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 464. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the remit of the proposed inclusion support service within the National Council for Special Education; the way in which it will deliver improved services that would have been delivered by the special education support service, the national behaviour support service, and the visiting teacher service for children who are deaf or hard of hearing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Water Supply Contamination (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools which have higher than acceptable levels of lead in their water supply; and the locations of same. [7053/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Water Supply Contamination (17 Feb 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been drawn to the seven schools in County Kilkenny with higher than acceptable levels of lead in their water supply; if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that they have been told by Irish Water to find a new supply; and the funding options open to them to replace the piping that is causing the excessive lead...