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Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: The Minister is saying the progress relates to last year and, while everything is being rolled out, nothing has actually been rolled out. Has the Minister had a chance to visit fifth year, sixth year or transition year groups in secondary schools around the country to ask the young women how many of them are interested in apprenticeships? In Austria and Germany it has been shown that, with...

Other Questions: Apprenticeship Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: We have a worrying dropout rate in colleges, particularly in certain courses in certain areas, where all qualifying applicants are being accepted. Many young people go to college, only to find out that it does not work out for them and that they would have been more successful in an apprenticeship. It sounds like it will take between five and seven years before the numbers increase in any...

Traveller Ethnicity: Statements (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: For too long, Travellers have been viewed as a problem by some in Irish society but I am so pleased that we here celebrating Travellers as a people. Every report that was commissioned in the early days focused almost entirely on the negative, most notably the Commission on Itinerancy Report in 1963. Traveller groups and activists have long advocated a new platform for their people, a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 55. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress to date in the Government reaching its target of 400 non-denominational and multidenominational schools by 2030; the number of such schools to be opened in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10119/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 68. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to and if he had the opportunity to examine the report, A Whole School Approach to Guidance Counselling in a Voluntary School in the Irish Post Primary Sector, by University of Limerick and DIT; his plans on foot of the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10116/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of the Quality and Qualifications Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012, in particular his Department's engagement with Quality and Qualifications Ireland regarding the implementation schedule for the international education mark; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10118/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 74. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which, under the new model for allocation of resource teaching hours in primary and secondary schools, children who received diagnoses in the school year 2016 to 2017 will receive resource teaching hours from September 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10120/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Compliance (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 98. To ask the Minister for Finance to outline his plans to institute a crackdown on overseas pensions, holiday homes, funds or other sources of income held by Irish residents abroad; the requirements for compliant taxpayers and scale of penalties for non-compliant taxpayers; the number of letters that have been issued to individuals, corporations, trusts and any other entities; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 99. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons here who are non-resident for tax purposes; the number of high net worth persons or similar identified by the Revenue Commissioners; the number of others; the amount that has been received from such persons in respect of each year since 2009 to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10566/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the updated cost benefit analysis and financial robustment element of the tender process for the Maynooth Education Campus, Maynooth, County Kildare has been completed; if approval of the issue of the letter of intent has issued to Kildare and Wicklow Education and Training Board, the conditions required of the letter of intent; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 125. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has received the supplementary tender report regarding a school (details supplied); if final approval has now issued to sign contracts for construction of the new school; when construction will commence; the construction timetable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10629/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 126. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for the delay in considering a request for capital funding for a school (details supplied); when the school authorities will receive a substantive response to their application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10630/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the design team for a new school (details supplied) has submitted the review of the impact to tender documents for the project arising from changes introduced in public works contracts; if the design team has submitted revised tender documents for the project; if the review and tender documents have been approved by his Department; when...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 132. 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. [10673/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 133. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide primary and post-primary average class size figures for Ireland and for other EU member states; his plans to tackle large class size concerns; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10674/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 150. 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. [10692/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 152. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to further improvements in the pupil-teacher ratio to help reduce the class size towards EU average in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Commencement of Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 134. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there are remaining sections of the Teaching Council Act 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. [10675/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Proposed Legislation (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to publish a draft of the education (parent and student charter) Bill; the details of the proposed pre-legislative scrutiny process; and the timetable for this. [10676/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (1 Mar 2017)

Joan Burton: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the specific measures he plans to deal with concerns regarding third level student support and funding challenges for third level institutions. [10678/17]