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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 23 June 2015, requesting information on the number of teachers in the primary school sector teaching in multigrade settings with classes containing three, four, five or more grades, the reason this information is not available; the information held by her Department on the number of multigrade...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 562. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 519 of 23 June 2015 requesting information on the number of schools currently without guidance provision, her views that it is considered best practice under the current delivering equality of opportunity in schools policy to allow schools to provide no guidance counselling hours for their students; the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Guidance Counsellors (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 563. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of guidance counsellors employed within the secondary school system. [26290/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 564. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of English teachers employed within the secondary school system. [26291/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (30 Jun 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce a cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR, and defibrillator training module to the transition year module; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26293/15]

Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: He would throw them under a bus.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We are not happy.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Deputy should tell that to his party leader.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We actually process them.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I have listened to most of the debate last night and tonight. To be honest, I have found some of the contributions from the Government benches bizarre. I have heard words such as "incentives", "encourage" and "immediate incentives to find extra work". This is the rationale for the policy changes the Government is bringing forward. I looked at the Government's amendment to our motion. It...

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am sorry, Deputy Joan Burton is the Minister.

One-Parent Family Payment Scheme: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: No bother. The Minister, Deputy Joan Burton, was in the Six Counties recently while negotiations were going on and she sat on her hands and said nothing. Then we get members of the Labour Party coming in here and criticising Sinn Féin, saying we stand over the cut-off of five years of age within the Six Counties. It is wrong that people who have never even crossed the Border come in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 208. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of new applications for home help that were approved for each of the past six months in the south Lee area and the north Lee area in County Cork. [26538/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service Data (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide, in tabular form, the number of new applications for home help that were approved, but not allocated due to financial constraints, for each of the past six months in the south Lee area and the north Lee area in County Cork. [26539/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I thank all the witnesses. I also pay tribute to Senator Moran for the role she has undertaken as rapporteur. My question is directed to the NCSE in respect of the 3,000 refused applications. Does the NCSE have numbers on how many of those 3,000 applicants would have had access to an SNA? How many of the 3,000 refusals were appealed and were successful on appeal? How many would have...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Role of Special Needs Assistants: Discussion (1 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: Will the representative from the National Parents Council expand on the issue of peer support? I have noticed when I speak to principals, those on the boards of management or parents of children with special educational needs such as dyslexia dyspraxia, Asperger's syndrome or elements of all three, that there would be consensus on the part of some parents that they would not want to have a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 181. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which the new cystic fibrosis ward will open in Cork University Hospital; and his views on the delay in opening the ward. [26817/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (7 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 450. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the projected cost of changing the measurement of geographical distance to a measurement of travel distance in respect of qualifying for grant assistance under the Student Universal Support Ireland scheme. [26892/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (7 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 451. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of reinstating the old adjacent rate of the grant under the Student Universal Support Ireland scheme at 24 km. [26893/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Universal Support Ireland Administration (7 Jul 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 452. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will examine introducing a special supplementary means tested payment under the Student Universal Support Ireland scheme for those living on islands who incur extra travel costs or living costs because they cannot commute. [26894/15]