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Other Questions: Third Level Funding (9 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will await the written answer and let Deputy Broughan ask his question. It is an important issue.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Data (9 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 13. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers employed in the primary and post-primary sector; the number of teachers on part-time contracts; and her plans to address the pay disparity for newly qualified teachers. [43698/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Curriculum (9 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 32. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to remove rule 68 from the school guidelines. [43700/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (9 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce an assessment regime for allocating supports under the reasonable accommodations at the certificate examinations scheme for students sitting the leaving certificate, similar to that which exists for students sitting the junior certificate. [43699/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 40. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will introduce a national strategy for hunger prevention in schools; if her Department will retain responsibility for developing, implementation and monitoring this strategy, and if a specific person within her Department will be given responsibility for the primary school age group. [43701/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Recruitment (9 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 43. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address the continued use of the JobBridge scheme to employ teachers within schools. [43697/15]

Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2015: Second Stage (10 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will only take approximately ten minutes. I wish to give notice of this to the Technical Group. The relevant Members are not here, but I do not want the Bill to collapse because they are not present. I offer apologies from Deputy Stanley to the Minister of State. He was unable to be in the House today to speak on behalf of Sinn Féin on this Bill. He asked me to step in at the last...

Courts Bill 2015 [Seanad]: Second Stage (14 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I give notice to the Technical Group that I will only use ten minutes of the allotted time in case its members think I intend to use the full time allocation of 30 minutes. I pass on Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn's apologies to the Minister of State. He is running late and has asked me to fill in for him. We will not oppose the legislation, the purpose of which, as outlined, is to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Provision (15 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to provide school transport in a case (details supplied) in County Cork. [44932/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (16 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: 150. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why the Teaching Council of Ireland is proposing to abolish Regulation 3 which allows Association Montessori Internationale and Sarojini Naidu Medical College graduates to teach in special schools and classes and in resource and as substitutes in mainstream schools, the percentage of teaching staff in special schools who fall under Regulation...

Leaders' Questions (17 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: The Tánaiste is embarrassing herself.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am not sure if it will be left to the next Dáil to see the passage of this Bill because we are coming back after Christmas.

Technological Universities Bill 2015: Second Stage (17 Dec 2015)

Jonathan O'Brien: I am sure the Minister is eager to get the Bill passed before the Dáil rises. We will have to wait and see how long Committee Stage takes. As the Minister is aware, Sinn Féin has a long-standing position of support for the introduction of technological universities in this State. However, that is not to say this is a position of unqualified support. We are broadly supportive...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (13 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new applications for home help that were approved but not allocated due to financial constraints in the south Lee area and in the north Lee area in County Cork, in each of the past six months, in tabular form. [1094/16]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Training Provision (13 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 740. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of attendees recorded by the teacher education section at continuing postponed Department seminars for post-primary teachers, including detailed whole-day workshops and evening seminars, in tabular form. [46449/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (13 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 742. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of schools in temporary accommodation; and the number of these that are Gaelscoileanna. [46471/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teaching Council of Ireland (13 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: 789. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware that the Teaching Council had compelled persons to pay registration fees before the commencement of section 30 of the Teaching Council Act; if she has sought clarity from the Teaching Council on the matter; and if this practice is permissible. [46939/15]

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (14 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I move amendment No. 1:In page 9, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following:" "academics" means tenured officers of the institute;". I think the amendments are self-explanatory. They seek to insert definitions.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (14 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: I will be pushing the amendments.

Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Technological Universities Bill 2015: Committee Stage (14 Jan 2016)

Jonathan O'Brien: No.