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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (14 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 837. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any additional software required to facilitate the payment of the revised scale for 2011 entrants has been tested. [1543/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Records (14 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 849. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department plans to store PPS numbers of primary school pupils for 30 years; the plans her Department has in place to ensure the safety of this information; the number of persons who will have access to this information; the safeguards that are in place to ensure that there will be no breaches of confidentiality or data...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Staff Recruitment (14 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 851. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will intervene with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in order that third level colleges may be permitted to fill posts where they can do so within their budgets and in line with agreed salary levels without having to obtain approval from that Department. [1675/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: SOLAS Staffing (14 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 857. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of personnel currently employed by SOLAS head office; the skill sets employed within this group; the total salary cost associated with this group of employees; the total costs associated with the rent of the new head offices together with the fit-out cost of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [1698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Establishment (14 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 858. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of former FÁS employees reassigned or employed to each education and training board; the global budgets assigned to each ETB for adult and further education and for training; the additional human resources and financial resources allocated to each ETB since the ETB sector assumed responsibility for training and for the former...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (14 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 859. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of adult education officers and adult guidance counsellors employed by each ETB; the number of additional such officers allocated to each ETB since the ETB sector assumed responsibility for FET; if she is satisfied that such allocations are sufficient to properly and effectively allow ETBs to carry out their statutory remit; and if...

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I join my colleagues in supporting the motion proposed by Deputy Kelleher. I want to focus in my remarks on the impact these difficulties are having on Letterkenny General Hospital, which is in my constituency. The staff of the hospital - the nurses and doctors and their managers - have been doing their absolute utmost over the last two weeks to try to deal with the increasing pressures...

Hospital Services: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (15 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: We hear less and less about the Government's plans for the future and universal health insurance, but instead of being told anything at all, what we need now is a recognition of the reality and for the Minister to ensure that the health service is managed. When we near a pinch point, action should be taken in advance. Unfortunately, we have not seen this approach to date. It is time for a...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Mother and Baby Homes Inquiries (15 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 162. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if the terms of reference for the Commission of Investigation into Mother and Baby Homes and Certain Related Matters will ensure that the commission investigates the experience of children and mothers who were transferred from the Republic of Ireland to homes in Northern Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1995/15]

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome the opportunity to speak on this very important issue and glad to see it getting a proper hearing for it in the House. I commend Sinn Féin on putting the matter down for discussion. I emphasise that Fianna Fáil favours very much reform of the junior certificate and achieving it in partnership with teachers. If one looks at how this came about, a great deal of work was...

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Deputy Quinn was very fond of it.

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: He invited all and sundry along for show-time and told them how it was going to be. Despite the fact that there had been widespread agreement on the proposals that had been worked out with many people, Deputy Quinn said they would go forward a different way and told everybody to row in behind and follow him so he could make his legacy. Our situation is emblematic of some of the approaches...

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Had this approach been taken, it would have given the Minister, the previous Minister and the Government much credit in the bank to engage appropriately with teachers as to how the 40% that was to be awarded in the schools would be structured and rolled out. However, the Minister never got to this stage because she was immediately in conflict. Instead of working with partners, they became...

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I do not doubt it.

Junior Cycle Reform: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: This time last year, I proposed that the then Minister, Deputy Quinn, delay the implementation instead of going forward with English. Had he delayed it until the following September, the new Minister could have started English alongside science and used the interim period to try to get agreement with the teachers. She could have used the benefit of the fact that she was a new Minister to...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 207. To ask the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 94 of 15 October 2014, the reason persons under the age of 26 on jobseeker's benefit only receive €100 training allowance on a FÁS training scheme while those under 26 on jobseeker's allowance automatically see an increase of €60 bringing their payment to €160 per week; her plans to...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Applications (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 291. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the outcome of a review in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Donegal regarding their agri-environment options scheme application; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2442/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 298. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when payment will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal under the disadvantaged areas payment scheme 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2554/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Plan (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 308. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of questions/queries asked of his Department by the EU Commission with regard to the draft rural development plan he has submitted for consideration; if the number of queries made by the Commission exceeds the number of queries from the Commission to the previous RDP submitted for approval under the outgoing CAP...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Registration of Nurses (20 Jan 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 447. To ask the Minister for Health if he will meet with all of the parties concerned regarding the increase in the registration fees for nurses and midwives with a view to bringing the matter to a satisfactory conclusion; if he will ensure that no nurse is effectively de-registered until this matter is resolved; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2700/15]