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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (28 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 374. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the case of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow; and her plans to address this matter. [16413/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Levels (28 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 388. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if an evaluation of the literacy and numeracy strategy has been carried out; and the results of same. [16668/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Staff (28 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 389. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of psychologists employed by the National Educational Psychological Service on 1 January each year from 2008 to 2015 . [16669/15]

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have approximately eight minutes left. I did not want to interrupt Deputy Ellis when in full flight.

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will return to some of the issues touched on by Deputy Ellis as some are relevant to most urban areas, not only Dublin but also Cork. I will touch on the wider spring statement announced yesterday by the Ministers, Deputies Noonan and Howlin. Most people, if asked, would say what was announced yesterday was pretty underwhelming. There was nothing new in the announcement and many of the...

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will tell the Minister of State what else we need. We have a new model for allocating resources to special needs children in mainstream schools and we will need additional special needs assistants. We have a cap on those assistants now. That cap has been lifted at times to increase the number of special needs assistants but that was only to meet increased demand for such assistants....

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: -----the Government cut it by 15%. If the Minister of State wants to know what else is required, he only has to read the contributions from yesterday and today. I can give another example. We need an apprenticeship programme.

Spring Economic Statement (Resumed) (29 Apr 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We have just finished a review of that programme, which has been published. I welcome that, as it proposes to expand the number of apprenticeships. That is needed. However, I have said time and again that we need a literacy and numeracy strategy within those apprenticeships. We have heard about the boom and bust cycle and people may have entered an apprenticeship to become a carpenter,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Professional Qualifications (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 342. To ask the Minister for Health the regulations and qualifications a person must hold in order to practice as a psychologist in private practice [17532/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Professional Qualifications (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 343. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of concerns held by parents regarding persons, who may not hold appropriate qualifications, providing diagnoses of autism and other disorders in children and adults; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17533/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 372. To ask the Minister for Health if a centre (details supplied) in County Cork is due for closure [17713/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Expenditure (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 441. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total yearly cost of providing educational supports for children with additional needs, such as special needs assistants, language support teachers, resource teachers and the National Educational Psychological Service. [17520/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Textbooks Rental Scheme (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 442. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for easing the costs of school books on parents with secondary school pupils, by introducing a School Book Rental Scheme Fund for secondary schools, similar to the €15 million allocated for primary schools in Budget 2013. [17521/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further Education and Training Programmes Provision (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on a circumstance of on-going tuition allocation of approximately 500 hours to further education learners in a publicly funded college, given that the tuition allocation reported to her Department, and funded by the State and by the European Union, is 800 hours; if such reduction in allocation is permitted by circular letters and-or...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 455. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of applications for funding through public private partnerships in respect of schools (details supplied) in County Wicklow which are currently in a bundle of seven schools approved by her Department for funding through such partnerships; if she is aware that Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council refused planning permission for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 459. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the development of the new community school building in Clifden, County Galway; when it is envisaged that the re-tender process will be completed; the timeframe envisaged for completion of the project; and if the required funding is still in place to complete it by then. [17358/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 465. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total allocations to the education budget each year since 2009. [17433/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Budgets (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 466. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total amount of savings in the education budget each year since 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17435/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Traveller Community (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 470. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which she has improved co-ordination and integration to delivery of services to the Traveller community across all Government Departments, particularly in the area of Traveller education through the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17479/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (6 May 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 471. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is now greater use of online platforms in a wider range of subjects and lessons; the additional subjects and lessons available online since 2011; if teachers are now using live web casts; the status of the digital school resource; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17480/15]