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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: National Internship Scheme Placements (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 181. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is legislation which specifically protects the rights of unpaid interns outside the JobBridge scheme; if unpaid internships that are undertaken outside the JobBridge scheme for more than a short period, for example four weeks, are legal under existing employment legislation; the rights and responsibilities of unpaid interns...

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Employment Rights (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 190. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if there is legislation which specifically protects the rights of paid and unpaid interns; if there is a legal definition of what an unpaid internship should entail, for example, whether it has to include some educational element; if there is any statutory upper limit to the length of time a person may undertake an unpaid...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 247. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has conducted investigations into a super trawler that has been fishing off the coast of County Donegal (details supplied); why the boat is able to fish in Irish waters when Irish fishermen have been excluded from doing so; the steps he proposes to take to address this situation; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Live Exports (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 248. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will liaise with live shellfish exporters to address new restrictions being applied to live exports to the Chinese market (details supplied); if he has contacted the Chinese authorities in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41480/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Partnerships (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will follow through on previous commitments to allow young trained farmers who have joint herd numbers with their parents to qualify for the 60% grant rate for erecting agricultural sheds; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41504/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Eligibility (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 250. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will extend the criteria for qualifying for a 60% grant for building farm sheds to those young trained farmers who began farming after 2007 and, therefore, did not get the opportunity to apply for previous 75% shed grants, but who now will be ineligible for the 60% rate under the proposed criteria for new grants, because they...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agri-Environment Options Scheme Payments (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 266. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when an application for a person (details supplied) will be processed under the 2013 agri-environment options scheme; when monies due from the 2013 and 2014 schemes, after area E12113232 was increased, will be paid; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41610/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Payments (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 267. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine why a payment has not issued to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal, under the areas of natural constraint scheme; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41628/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists employed to work specifically in special schools; the approximate cost of employing these speech and language therapists. [41553/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 473. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the provision in mainstream secondary schools in County Kildare for children with a disability, including those on the autism spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41377/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 479. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will review the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who had attended a special autism unit in Derrinturn, but for whom there is now no place in a local secondary school. [41483/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Data (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 486. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her Department or agencies under its aegis collect statistics on third-level student debt or on debt incurred while students are attending third level; and the details of these statistics, by year, by institute and by programme. [41516/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 492. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a decision will be made on an application for two additional classrooms for a post primary school (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41552/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Asylum Support Services (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 493. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind the five-year residency rule required for young asylum seekers to be entitled to access third level education in the same way as Irish citizens and European Union Irish residents; why she imposed a five-year as opposed to a three-year residency rule, as it is the normal residency requirement for Irish/ and European Union...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Work Placement Programmes (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 494. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is legislation which specifies the rights and responsibilities of employers towards students in post-primary education undertaking unpaid work experience, as part of a third level or second level course; if legislation is required to protect young persons from potential exploitation in these situations. [41555/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 495. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the Exchequer estimates for the amount to link the student maintenance support grants with the Consumer Price Index for the next five years, based on historical trajectories of the Consumer Price Index over the past ten years; how she will provide Exchequer estimates for the amount the student maintenance support grants would increase by if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she has considered amalgamating the Central Applications Office and the Student Universal Support Ireland systems, and introducing the proposals put forward by the St. Vincent de Paul Society (details supplied) for aligning the systems to ensure that students know their funding status before the take up their Central Applications Office...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Wastewater Treatment (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 536. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 573 of 29 September 2015, the progress to date on the taking in charge of developments with standalone treatment plants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41334/15]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (24 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 586. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the A5 motorway, and any agreement concerning it with the Northern Ireland Executive, following the recent Stormont deal. [41655/15]

Credit Union Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I am glad to speak on the motion. It is disappointing, however, to find ourselves here yet again trying to get the Government to understand the impact that its proposals for the remaining sections of the Credit Union Act 2012 will have on the credit union movement. This issue has been debated in the House on a number of previous occasions. Fianna Fáil has already tabled a Private...