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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Not long after he was elected, the Taoiseach was in a building adjacent to the school where he gave a commitment to giving some priority to the school. Incidentally, the proposed new school was approved by the Department in 2010. Is the Minister listening?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: What the school has been told is not delightful but potentially disastrous. It must reapply for planning permission and it has been informed that the costs of the project have increased by 61%. If some of the funding the Government has been lashing around for the strategic communications unit had been spent on schools such as St. Patrick's, the new building would probably have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Schools Building Projects Status (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: On his visit to the area last year, the Taoiseach indicated construction would commence shortly. Did that statement not mean anything? Is the Minister aware that the school is located in the area with the highest population growth in Ireland and probably western Europe? Under the previous Government, school after school was built and many of them experienced horrendous difficulties as...

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the additional initiatives he plans for persons working in science, information technology and STEM that wish to convert to be primary and secondary teachers; the additional costs of conversion for mature students; his further plans to mitigate this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14420/18]

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I want to ask the Minister about the plans his Department has to encourage, support and enable people who may have expertise in STEM subjects, including mathematics and science, and what proposals, if any, his Department has to encourage people who may want to transfer from those areas to becoming primary or secondary teachers. The current requirements mean that people who want to transfer -...

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister tell Members what is his estimate of the likely annual cost for a person to transfer from a job in STEM and to retrain as a teacher for primary or secondary education? How many years is that likely to take? How long must the person wait to get on a course? At the moment the indicative cost of postgraduate courses, I understand, is €5,000 to €6,000 a year....

Other Questions: Teacher Training Provision (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: For many working-class students who go to college and take up STEM careers, and then find they want to transfer and become teachers, as the Minister has acknowledged, it will cost them €5,000 a year in fees alone for at least two years. He seems perfectly happy with that idea. Does he understand what it costs to leave a job, or maybe hold on to some element of a part-time job,...

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will the Minister supply us with the figures, because what he has just announced really is news? I and I am sure every other Deputy can take the Minister to children who are on the autism spectrum or have behavioural issues, many of whom have parents who are teachers. We understood that their speech and language therapy was to be delivered locally in the school using the model that has been...

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: That is not what the model was.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Some €2 million.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: And the parents.

Other Questions: Speech and Language Therapy (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Yes. That is what the-----

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 10. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of his Department’s action in dealing with the fallout from the collapse of a company (details supplied) and contracts undertaken by Departments with the company; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13416/18]

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: This question relates to the collapse of a company involved in public private partnerships, PPPs, and the affected Capita and Carillion contracts, some of which are with the Department of Education and Skills. Will the Minister make a statement on the current situation?

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: The schools in question are the Loreto college in Wexford, Coláiste Ráithín and St. Philomena's primary school in Bray, Eureka secondary school in Kells, and Tyndall college and the Institute of Further Education in Carlow. When does the Minister expect these projects to be completed, available to the school communities to be taken over and opened? In the case of two of the...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: I understand that the tenders are due back by early April. When will that be? Clearly DIF is the Dutch Infrastructure Fund. When does he expect work to recommence to complete the projects? His reply implied all the schools would open in September whereas the understanding that has been given is that in the two projects that are pretty much complete, the school authorities could take...

Other Questions: Public Private Partnerships (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: Will that be early April for the tenders?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Information and Communications Technology (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 35. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools using tablet devices (details supplied) in the classroom; the number that have stopped using these devices in the classroom due to control issues; the problems primary schools have experienced in respect of this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14422/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Professional Development (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 38. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide continuous professional development for second level teachers in respect of the teaching and learning of computer science at second level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14419/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Severe Weather Events Response (29 Mar 2018)

Joan Burton: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the measures and policies his Department has in place in respect of making up for lost school days incurred during Storm Emma; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14421/18]