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Priority Questions: Third Level Institutions Governance (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: Is the Minister saying that he is washing his hands of this problem and that because many of the third level institutions and universities are established under particular statutes, he as Minister is powerless to do much about it? The public are going to be genuinely scandalised when they find out the extent of what has been happening in terms of the money in these accounts, which are...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Seanad Reform (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 11. To ask the Taoiseach the position regarding the group being formed to reform Seanad Éireann. [24017/17]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 13. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his meeting with Mr. Michel Barnier on 11 May 2017. [24018/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Language Schools (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislative proposals his Department has to establish a learner protection fund for students of English language schools; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24660/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 63. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the low uptake of apprenticeships by females; his plans to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24662/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Proposed Legislation (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 70. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the legislative proposals his Department is working on to make it an offence to advertise and provide academic cheating services for students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24659/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the Equal Status (Admissions to School) Bill 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24661/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: International Summits (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his policy on attendance at and participation in the OECD's annual international summit on the teaching profession; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24921/17]

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

Joan Burton: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is a clear pay disparity between teachers recruited before 1 January 2011 and those recruited thereafter; 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 restoration of a qualification allowance...

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

Joan Burton: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on whether there is a pay disparity between teachers recruited before 1 January 2011 and those recruited thereafter; 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 restoration of a qualification allowance...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Legislative Process (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the Technological Universities Bill 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24923/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Correspondence (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the correspondence he has received from the chief executive of the Higher Education Authority regarding governance, human resources and financial practices in the University of Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24924/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Exchange Scheme (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department's work on setting up a relocation panel for permanent primary school teachers who need to relocate but do not wish to resign their position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24925/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the percentage of each accreditation and co-ordination of English language services and schools (details supplied) capacity which is left empty in order to assure they have enough capacity to honour ACELS/MEI’s learner protection scheme should the need arise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24926/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: English Language Training Organisations (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his Department’s role in the regulation of an association (details supplied) in particular the leaner protection scheme of the association; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24927/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Quality and Qualifications Ireland Administration (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the implementation of the Qualifications and Quality 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, IEM; the status of its recruitment of inspectors for the IEM; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on the uptake in the number of apprenticeships by females; his plans to address the issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24929/17]

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

Joan Burton: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding 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. [24930/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the way in which children under the new model for allocation of resource teaching hours in primary and secondary that received diagnoses in the school year 2016/2017 will receive resource teaching hours from September 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24931/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (24 May 2017)

Joan Burton: 124. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of information and communication technology grants his Department has paid to primary and secondary schools in the past 12 months; the details of the grants given to schools, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24932/17]