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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 242. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a one-point reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio at primary level. [36350/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of a one-point reduction in the pupil-teacher ratio for the first four years at primary level. [36351/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of expediting teacher recruitment so that primary schools would be allocated teachers on the basis of the current school year’s enrolment figures as distinct from the previous year’s enrolment figures. [36352/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome Councillor Canning and Ms Margey from Donegal, and Councillor Hastings. It is a pleasure to see them and to have met them yesterday evening. In the north-west cross-Border group, Donegal is the main stakeholder in the Republic, and has suffered alongside the North over many years due to the lack of joined-up political thinking between the Six Counties and the Border counties....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Development of North-West Region: North West Region Cross Border Group (25 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I am not a member of this committee. I endorse Deputy Smith's suggestion on having a session to follow on from a meeting dealing with the progress of the North West Gateway Initiate with officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, who are responsible for driving the project from the Republic. I also support the suggestion an invitation would issue to representatives from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 99. To ask the Minister for Health the total number of consultant posts being filled by agency staff in Letterkenny General Hospital; the total cost in 2014 to Letterkenny General Hospital of the agency paid consultants; if an allowance will be made in the Letterkenny General Hospital budget to reflect this situation; his plans to attract consultants to Letterkenny General Hospital; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 108. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the consultant posts which are being filled by agency staff in Letterkenny General Hospital; the length of time that these posts have been filled by agency staff; the total cost to Letterkenny General Hospital in 2014 of the agency consultants; the efforts his Department is making to ensure that these consultant posts are filled by...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to change the implementation of the policy in the professional development service for teachers with regard to the need for staff within the service to retire or return to the classroom within five years, therefore losing the experience built up in the service throughout the years; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Voluntary Housing Sector (30 Sep 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 562. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to change the criteria for the buying out of houses for voluntary housing groups (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36683/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (1 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 17. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when funding will be made available for the A5; the position regarding his most recent engagements with his counterpart in Northern Ireland on progressing the A5; if the Northern Ireland Executive has advised him of its plans for funding the project using money specifically awarded under the St. Andrew's Agreement; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Improvement Schemes (1 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 26. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reinstate the specific improvements grant scheme with particular reference to his plans to specifically provide funding for a new bridge at Cockhill, Buncrana, County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36809/14]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Administration (1 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 49. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will provide funds to a company (details supplied) in County Donegal under the free travel scheme so that the senior citizens of Inishowen can avail of free travel in the same way that their contemporaries can all over the country; this route is not a new route, it is the same route as was operated by Lough Swilly before it went out of...

Sixth Report of the Constitutional Convention - Blasphemy: Statements (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I call the Minister of State. He has five minutes.

Topical Issue Matters (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 27A and the name of the Member in each case: (1) Deputies Lucinda Creighton and Peter Mathews - the need to ensure parental choice for secondary schools is preserved; (2) Deputies Pat Breen and Kieran O'Donnell - the need to alleviate the overcrowding in the accident and...

Leaders' Questions (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Not many questions answered there.

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister for an update on the universities (amendment) Bill, which has been on the B list for nearly three years. Does the Government intend to proceed with it? With regard to the publication yesterday of the Times Higher Education rankings, the fall of Trinity College Dublin from the top 100 and UCD from the top 200-----

Order of Business (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Will the Minister take action to stop the slide by not cutting third level education funding?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service Report (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 151. To ask the Minister for Health when the ambulance report regarding the death of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37539/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Issues (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 157. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the replacement for the motorised transport grant and the mobility allowance; when he hopes to announce same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37594/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Application Numbers (2 Oct 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 170. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of first time student grant applications received by Student Universal Support Ireland this year; the number of these that have been fully processed; the number of these for which colleges have been informed that fees will be paid by SUSI; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37419/14]