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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (26 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 127. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider changing the requirement for teachers to register with the teaching council from an annual registration to a three or five yearly renewal requirement so as to avoid the situation where teachers who miss the annual deadline for registration by more than five days are blocked from receiving salary payments; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (26 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 168. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will accept an application under the grant scheme for wheelchair accessible taxis, in order for a person to purchase a new WAV, in view of the fact that the person concerned has ordered a new vehicle from a car dealer but it will not be ready until March 2015 and the closing date for the scheme is 24 December 2014; and if he will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on the junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45454/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: This is to ask the Minister for an update on the reform of the junior cycle, particularly in light of the fact that a teachers' strike is imminent on 2 December.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for her response. I welcomed the Minister's row-back on the need for the junior certificate to continue to be a State certified examination and for 60% of the final examination to be externally assessed. I had been calling for that for more than two years, as had others, but the former Minister, Deputy Quinn, was not in listening mode throughout the three years in which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: Issues remain regarding the 40% in-school assessment and project work that need to be discussed with the concerns. They still have genuine concerns, as they had until now.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's position is that she will only talk to them if they accept at the outset that there will be 60% outside assessment and 40% inside assessment. That is a barrier to real negotiations and getting down to the nitty-gritty, which can lead to a resolution. Will the Minister go back to the talks, do a real assessment of the remaining issues, and try to come to an agreement which...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Reform (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: The Minister's response to the decision of teachers to strike, and I have called on teachers to call off the strike and engage with her, also requires her leaving the door properly ajar for discussions with them. Rather than being a progression, the Minister's U-turn, which brings us back to where we started, and her corresponding stance that any talks are dependent on the unions agreeing to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works grant in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45455/14]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I very much welcome that the minor works grant will be paid this year. Many schools are waiting for funds and finding it very difficult to pay their bills and are existing on overdrafts. Unfortunately, no clarity was given to the schools throughout this year as to whether this very important grant would be paid to them. The first time they had any certainty that it would be paid was when...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not accept the Minister’s answer. The fact that she has taken €28 million from the capital budget means many schools that are ready to go with their building works and whose building works are in progress are being stalled into next year to provide the money. This is not money that the Minister finds, nor was it before the Government came into office. It was normally...

Other Questions: Broadband Service Provision (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: What negotiations has the Minister had with her colleague, the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Alex White, following his announcement during the week regarding the roll-out of broadband in areas of the country that will not be serviced by private operators? The Minister indicated that 200 primary schools will receive higher speed broadband in the near future,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Reviews (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 31. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on junior cycle reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45282/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Technological Universities (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way she plans to advance proposals for a technological university in the south east; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45286/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 36. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views that the school profiling element of the proposed new special needs model has caused deep concern and that many school principals, particularly in rural and smaller communities, are worried that the gathering of personal information may damage the school-home relationship; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45284/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Broadband Service Provision (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline her plans to improve broadband connectivity in primary schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45285/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Minor Works Scheme Restoration (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 46. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there will be a minor works grant in 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45283/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 84. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding an appeal under the single farm payment scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45579/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Single Payment Scheme Appeals (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 89. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an appeal has been received by his Department in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding their single farm payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45663/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Appeals (27 Nov 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: 93. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the position regarding a 2014 area aid appeal in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45687/14]