Results 4,061-4,080 of 23,975 for speaker:Charlie McConalogue

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 511. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide details of Health Service Executive plans for the future of a hospital (details supplied) in County Donegal; if the executive is examining options for expansion of capacity at the hospital; if the executive has assessed the capacity of the site to facilitate expansion of facilities and beds; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 574. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps her Department is taking to increase the capacity in the Edenderry area, County Offaly for students requiring places in autism spectrum disorder units in mainstream secondary education in September 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15171/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 575. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans in respect of a school (details supplied) in County Donegal; the total amount of funding which has been allocated to the school for completion of permanent facilities and replacement of existing prefabricated units; the details of the services and facilities which are to be put in place; the amount of expected funding required for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Primary Online Database (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 579. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide an update on her engagement with the Data Protection Commissioner with regard to the operation of the new primary online database for primary schools; if the commissioner has given his consent and approval to her Department gathering all the information which it is seeking from schools with regard to their pupils; in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Educational Disadvantage (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 580. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of her decision to formally review the operation of the delivering equality of opportunity in schools scheme, if any schools due to have legacy posts suppressed in September 2015 will now retain these posts; if her Department will review its decision to suppress legacy scheme posts in other schools in previous academic years where the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 581. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will ensure that a school (details supplied) in County Kerry will have four teachers for the school year 2015-2016, in view of the schools projected enrolment figure of 93 pupils in September 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15305/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 587. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide funding for information technology equipment to a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15373/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (21 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 597. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there have been any instances where a decision by Bus Éireann not to grant free school transport to students on the basis that the students are not attending their nearest school have been overturned; if Bus Éireann has the power of discretion to grant free transport to students who are not attending their nearest school; the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: EU Court Rulings (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills with regard to the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of a person (details supplied), if she will commit to making compensation packages available to victims of abuse who were abused prior to a complaint being made against a perpetrator; if she will commit to ensuring those who had dropped their case against her Department,...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: EU Court Rulings (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: The purpose of the question is to ask the Minister, with regard to the ruling by the European Court of Human Rights in the case of Ms Louise O'Keeffe, if she will commit to making compensation packages available to victims of abuse who were abused prior to a complaint being made against a perpetrator; if she will commit to ensuring that those who dropped their cases against the Department on...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: EU Court Rulings (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: In announcing a compensation package following the decision of the European Court of Human Rights in the O'Keeffe case, the Minister stated:I think anybody who has any feeling for someone who was sexually abused, must have regret for what Louise had to go through. She has been an extraordinary, courageous fighter all along... In the past, the State along with many other powerful...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: EU Court Rulings (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department fought the victims and fought Louise O'Keeffe all the way through the High Court, Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights, which overturned the previous decisions in Ms O'Keeffe's case. It is clear the Minister's approach now is to do the absolute minimum to cover herself and the Department on this. Her approach does not have at its centre an acceptance of the hurt...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Disadvantage (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will commit to removing the cap on the expansion of the Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Programme; if she will put in place the measures suggested by the review of the programme by the Economic and Social Research Institute, to enhance funding and supports for urban schools under the programme; and if she will make a...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Disadvantage (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister for her response. The ESRI report is indeed welcome and it is the first overall review of the DEIS scheme since it was introduced in 2006. The findings show the scheme is working. It is a scheme which my party, Fianna Fáil, was committed to when it established it in 2006. In recent times, we have been calling for it to be expanded. I welcome the fact the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Educational Disadvantage (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: The ESRI report showed real progress in several areas. Between 2007 and 2013, significant improvement in reading and maths scores of primary school students across DEIS programme schools was recorded. At the same time, the report pointed out there was a general improvement across all schools in these scores. Accordingly, DEIS programme schools kept pace with improvements and the gap did...

Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 6. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will put in place an appeal mechanism to facilitate, review and change outcomes generated by the nearest school rule under the school transport scheme, which families affected by this rule consider to be inefficient and unfair; her views on the particular circumstances of a decision referred to in a previous Parliamentary...

Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I understand that any appeal must be decided according to the criteria set out by the Department of Education and Skills. The appeals board would consider the criteria and rules, and if a decision by Bus Éireann meets the criteria, the board cannot change it. Is my understanding correct?

Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Since the Government changed the rules in 2012, I have raised numerous cases in which the rule was unfairly applied. Even in cases where older children in a family have qualified for transport to a certain school, younger siblings are required to attend a different school if it is closer or else pay €350 per year to take the same bus as their older brother or sister. That is an...

Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I am very disappointed and will continue to highlight the Minister of State's refusal to address the situation and overturn the previous decision. Unfortunately, it is unfair. The rule the Minister of State's Government is enforcing and requiring Bus Éireann to enforce on its behalf is leading to this unfair situation. In the example of the Urris area and Clonmany parish in County...

Other Questions: School Transport Eligibility (22 Apr 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: If a school bus was provided to them, it simply could not go over Mamore Gap. It would have to go along the route it currently takes to deliver students to Carndonagh community school and would then have to continue on even further as it would now have to go to Buncrana. That will cost the Department a lot more and will cost the students in terms of time. It will also cost money to...