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Other Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 131. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the implementation of junior cycle reforms. [33940/15]

Other Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am happy to wait for the Minister's response.

Other Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We are going back over a previous question by Deputy McConalogue. The issue, as Deputy McConalogue outlined, was that we got off to a bad start. The way the previous Minister went about trying to railroad junior cycle reform was counter-productive. It got people's backs up and there was a loss of trust with the Department. That was unfortunate because nearly all political parties in this...

Other Questions: State Examinations Reviews (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I hope the Minister is correct in her assessment that the clarification will be enough to secure the support of the ASTI. There is a time issue here because we are coming to the end of this Government's term. Whether it is next month or in April, we have a finite amount of time to resolve this. We need to resolve it before we head into a general election because so much work has been...

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The patronage divestment programme is important and we must focus on it continually. It is fundamentally wrong that schools that are oversubscribed and that have a particular religious ethos may discriminate against children who do not share the ethos. I have met parents whose children are unable to attend their local schools because they have not been baptised and will not make their...

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Government could change the Constitution.

Other Questions: School Patronage (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: We are doing it for teachers but not for students.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Management (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to hold an inquiry into the schools using resource hours for administrative duties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33937/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Discipline (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 160. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department has ever sought legal advice on the operation of prone restraint and seclusion rooms in schools; if she will provide the details of this advice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33941/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 161. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children requiring resource hours of any kind during each year since 2009; and if she will provide an update on the National Council for Special Education reformed allocation system. [33938/15]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Travel (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 172. To ask the Taoiseach if the Cabinet handbook protocol requires Ministers to consult him in advance of international visits as to whether a spouse may accompany them; if a Minister of State (details supplied) did so for recent travel to Brussels in Belgium; the response received to the request; the number of such requests made during each year since 2011; and the number of those requests...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 625. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address Student Universal Support Ireland’s application of rules preventing young persons estranged from their families from accessing its support; if she is aware of a particular case (details supplied); her views that this is an effective use of the courts system; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33983/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 629. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of resource persons, resource workers, and resource co-ordinators within Youthreach structures; if those persons must be registered with the Teaching Council; and if they are considered teachers by her Department. [33998/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (6 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 148 of 21 January 2014, if advice on the use of seclusion, isolation, or withdrawal rooms by the National Council for Special Education was ever received; and the detail of this advice. [34134/15]

Building on Recovery: Statements (7 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I wish to share time with Deputy Ó Caoláin. I will touch on the education aspect, as that is my own portfolio. I will acknowledge that there is significant funding going in between now and 2021 of €3.8 billion. Unfortunately, that will only be able to match the growth in demographics. We will cater for the peak in students which are coming on line. At primary school,...

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Budget Statement 2016 (13 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I just saw the Minister for Finance. He is outside getting photographs taken.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (13 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 307. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to re-open the former health care unit building on the grounds of the Community Hospital in Macroom in County Cork, as promised by the Health Service Executive. [35602/15]

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: It is not happening.

Leaders' Questions (14 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Taoiseach knows why - the Government did nothing for five years.

Financial Resolutions 2016 - Financial Resolution No. 5: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I wish to be associated with the expressions of sympathy to members of An Garda Síochána and the Traveller community. In my brief contribution I wish to focus on education. Fine Gael and the Labour Party came to office in 2011 and between then and yesterday's budget announcement some €500 million had been taken out of the education budget. We saw capitation grants...