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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 36. 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 the previous 75% shed grants, but who now, under his proposed criteria for new grants, will be ineligible for the 60% rate because...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Carer's Allowance Applications (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 70. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection the status of an application for a carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42029/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Scheme Payments (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 134. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when outstanding headage payments for 2015 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42044/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funding which will be provided in 2016 to the Health Service Executive in County Donegal for disability services; the amount of this funding that will be allocated for progressing disability services for children and young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41864/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Funding (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 169. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided in 2015 to date to the Health Service Executive in County Donegal for disability services under the 2015 operational plan; the amount of this funding that was allocated for progressing disability services for children and young people; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41865/15]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Special Education: Chairperson Designate (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I welcome Mr. Stack and his colleagues from the executive of the NCSE. I thank him for his ongoing commitment to his role and his work, along with the executive, over the past three years. I will support them, and I wish them well for the next three years. There are some issues on which I would like Mr. Stack to comment and give his perspective. He mentioned the NCSE's plans over the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Council for Special Education: Chairperson Designate (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Mr. Stack for his response on the pilot model. He mentioned that the working group operated in the spirit of being resource free in terms of the implications. Will Mr. Stack elaborate on what that meant? My understanding is that Mr. Stack took a model that was in place but proposed another way to allocate whatever level of resources were available. Were there any advice or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Adult Literary Agency: Discussion (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: I thank Ms Bailey and Ms Phelan for coming before the committee today, and I thank Ms Bailey for her presentation and for expressing the issues so clearly. I commend NALA on its great work and hope that it continues to make progress. I know it strives for advances to be made in adult literacy and numeracy levels. I would like the delegation to comment on a couple of issues. As Ms Bailey...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: National Adult Literary Agency: Discussion (25 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: Is Ms Bailey saying that, although we are keeping 98% of people in the second level system, they are not benefitting from it and it is not doing its job? They come out a few years later and do other tests but do not demonstrate evidence of having benefitted from completing second level education. If we are not succeeding with second level we need to carry out an assessment of the reasons....

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation (26 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 11. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken over the past five years to encourage job creation and new inward investment in County Donegal, given that there have been only three site visits to the county in 2015 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41748/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Job Creation Data (26 Nov 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 24. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if County Donegal has fallen behind other parts of the country in terms of job creation; if poor road and broadband infrastructure in the county is a contributing factor to the lack of new inward investment in the county in the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41747/15]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Payments (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 160. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection when arrears will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal who was awarded a disability allowance from 2 July 2014; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42673/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Correspondence (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 259. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will issue a final reply (details supplied) to correspondence sent to his office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42513/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Disadvantaged Areas Scheme Payments (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 274. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when a disadvantaged areas payment 2015 will issue to a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42619/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 496. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the schools listed in the summary of new schools to open in 2017 and 2018 list, Appendix 1, are due to be operational in 2017 with the number of classes and students indicated on the list; if not, if she will provide a new list outlining when each new school on the list is expected to be operational; and the type of temporary accommodation...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 500. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of minority faith schools by county, by denomination, by primary or post-primary and by patronage, such as voluntary, comprehensive, community, etc., in tabular form. [42389/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Patronage (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 501. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when decisions will be made on the patronage and site of the new primary school in the Goatstown and Stillorgan area of County Dublin; if she will involve the parents in these decisions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42446/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staffing (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 503. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will appoint a third teacher to a school (details supplied) in September 2016; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42461/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 504. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to address the health and safety issues in a school (details supplied) in Dublin 20; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42465/15]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Administration (1 Dec 2015)

Charlie McConalogue: 505. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average response times for decisions by the National Educational Psychological Service under reasonable accommodation in the certificate examinations scheme for students requiring special arrangements to sit their leaving certificate examination in 2014 to 2015, or in the latest year available; the number of students who receive a response...