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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 182. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he plans to progress the three areas in the education sector that he has identified as his core priority areas of focus in the sector, including helping children with special needs, supporting schools and building a stronger bridge between education and the workplace; the reason he has prioritised these three areas; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 183. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to reform the model of leadership in schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2986/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 185. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are remaining sections of the Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015 to be commenced; the timeframe for commencing such sections; and the number of fitness to teach complaints received and processed to date since he commenced these provisions in July 2016. [2988/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans and the timeframe in respect of complementing the fitness to teach provisions of the Teaching Council (Amendment) Act 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3003/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 186. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when he proposes to publish a draft of the education (parent and student charter) Bill; the details of the proposed pre-legislative scrutiny process; and the timeframe for this. [2989/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which he will address concerns that the Teaching Council, in the absence of a statutory complaints procedure for use at school level, will be expected to address complaints which are better resolved at local level and thus have less resources to deal with very serious complaints which may arise. [2990/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Admissions Assistance (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures he plans in order to deal with concerns regarding third level student support and funding challenges for third level institutions. [2991/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 189. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his view on whether there is a clear pay disparity between teachers recruited before 1 January 2011 and those recruited thereafter with regard to pay equality for teachers; his further views on whether it is unacceptable to maintain such pay disparities; his plans to address pay equality issues beyond the steps already agreed in relation to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 190. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has reviewed the recently published Labour Party Equal Status (Admission to School) Bill; his views on the aims and objectives of the bill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2993/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 191. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to issue a directive on implementing pay deductions for members of teachers' unions that rejected working additional hours under the Croke Park agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2994/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the roll-out of the junior cycle reform process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2995/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Skills Shortages (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 193. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the areas that have been highlighted as having skills shortages by the skills and labour market research unit, such as business administration and management, the green economy, financial services, information technology, manufacturing, engineering, sales, marketing and transport; his plans to tackle these skills shortages; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Review (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 194. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the suggestions by the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation that related capital investment will be necessary if the programme for Government commitment on having schools available for child care services can be successfully implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2997/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the stage at which the review of the school support programme through the DEIS initiative is at; when this review will be completed and published; if he envisages any changes to the funding or delivery model of the DEIS programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2999/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 196. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide new courses in the leaving certificate, such as coding, physical education and politics; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3000/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 197. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the moratorium on filling certain promoted posts in schools will be lifted, in view of the fact it was introduced as an emergency measure in 2009; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3001/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 208. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to end the current ban on promotions at the primary school level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3012/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 198. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which, including the total investment involved, his Department supports teacher continuous professional development at primary and post-primary levels; the figure of the total investment as a percentage of education spending overall; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3002/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated timeframe for and cost of the Government programme commitment to reducing the pupil-teacher ratio in junior and senior infants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3004/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (24 Jan 2017)

Joan Burton: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the location of all schools under religious patronage which he expects to be divested in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3005/17]