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Other Questions: Gender Equality (10 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: As the Minister is aware, Dr. Sheehy Skeffington won the tribunal and was awarded €70,000, which she has donated towards the legal costs of the High Court action. The fact that the Minister has not seen the terms of reference is an indication of how NUI Galway is approaching the issue. There is considerable criticism from the female lecturers themselves as well as the unions...

Other Questions: Gender Equality (10 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: Has the Minister seen the terms of reference for the task force?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (10 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 20. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that at least 1,000 students with special needs were refused examination supports by the State Examinations Commission this year for the leaving certificate; her plans to change the access process to make it the same as for the junior certificate; if she will rectify this so that students know they will receive supports earlier...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (10 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 27. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to amend legislation so that children may not be discriminated against in accessing school places on the basis of religion. [21934/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (10 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to expand and diversify the sectors in which persons may undertake apprenticeships; the funding that will be allocated to this; the extra apprenticeship places that will be funded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21932/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (10 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 42. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of recent announcements by third level institutions that they will increase the cost of on-campus accommodation; the date on which she will receive the report from the Higher Education Authority on student accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21930/15]

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is very easy to pick up a telephone.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Tánaiste should answer the question she was asked and the Taoiseach should pick up a phone.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: A boy of 19 years of age is on hunger strike and that is Deputy Stagg's response.

Leaders' Questions (11 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Government has some neck given that it will not pick up a phone.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (11 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of concerns raised by students following the ordinary level leaving certificate mathematics paper 1 examination this year in relation to elements of the higher level paper being incorporated into this; if there is a strategy of making ordinary level mathematics papers more difficult in order to push students into doing the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Proposed Legislation (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 415. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality her plans to introduce legal recognition of pre-nuptial agreements in view of the legal recognition of cohabitation agreements for non-married partners. [22992/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 711. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of providing training for all teachers at post-primary level in the mental health and emotional wellbeing aspect of the Social, Personal and Health Education Curriculum, in order to ensure that teachers are skilled to deal with the problems faced by students; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23353/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Meals Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 731. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans for her Department to take over the responsibility for food provision in schools from the Department of Social Protection. [23722/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Meals Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 733. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce a national standard for food provision in schools, or if she has discussed the potential for this with the Department of Social Protection. [23724/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Ministerial Meetings (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason she has not met with the Irish Heart Foundation to discuss the matter of food provision in schools. [23723/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Meals Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 734. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is any monitoring process in place to ensure that schools engage in providing health foods; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23725/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Water Supply (16 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 750. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he is aware that 40% of schools have no access to free drinking water for students; and his plans to address this matter. [23726/15]

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I support this amendment and believe the default position should be that hearings would be held in private. As Deputies Coppinger and Boyd Barrett have outlined, if it is in the public interest that a hearing should be held in public, it can be, but the default position should be that hearings are held in private. The Teaching Council can then decide case by case whether there is a public...

Teaching Council (Amendment) Bill 2015: Report and Final Stages (17 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 10:In page 27, between lines 2 and 3, to insert the following:“Review of operation of Act 24. The Minister shall—(a) not later than 2 years after this section comes into operation, commence a review of the operation of this Act, and (b) not later than 12 months after its commencement, make a report to each House of the Oireachtas of the findings made on...