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- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Does the offsetting, to which the Minister referred, mean that the additional increases in the student contribution fee have not increased in any way or have not gone directly to the college but have been offset by reducing capitations elsewhere? Is that correct?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Is the Minister saying that there are not any institutes of technology in the red at present needing that funding?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: Would it be fair to say that if some of them did not get the forward loading of this fee, they would be in the red for the year?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: I wish to ask about the additional expenditures relating to applications made under the summer works scheme the previous year where the applications were kept on file in the Department. In the interim period a number of the schools, on receiving news that their applications for the scheme in 2014 were not successful, would have carried out the works and funded them by taking out loans or by...
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: The problem was that-----
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: The summer works scheme has just closed for the receipt of applications. When does the Minister expect to make an announcement on them?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: What exactly is happening?
- Committee on Education and Social Protection: Select Sub-Committee on Education and Skills: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 26 - Education and Skills (Supplementary) (8 Dec 2015) Charlie McConalogue: The money was allocated for the provision of courses.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 1. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions she has had in relation to the inclusion of provisions excluding denominational schools from using a child's religion in selection criteria for school admissions in the forthcoming Education (Admission to Schools) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44117/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The question seeks an update from the Minister on the discussions she has had with her coalition partners on the need for a change to the current situation with regard to school admissions policy, particularly the criterion of religion. I note from the coverage in today's newspapers that the Minister intends to drop the Education (Admission to Schools) Bill and not to implement it before the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I find it objectionable that we can read in today's newspapers a clearer explanation from the Minister as to the current status of the school admissions Bill than she has outlined in her reply to my question. Could she confirm whether it is her intention not to proceed with the Bill and instead to kick it to touch until after the next general election, as per her comments across a number of...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: School Admissions (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister is being defeatist rather than realistic, because this is something that was very much within the Minister's grasp. It was within her power to ensure the Bill went through the Dáil and Seanad during the past five years. In fact, it is something that the Minister and her predecessor, Deputy Quinn, flagged as one of the key reform measures of the Labour Party tenure in...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on the challenge by schools (details supplied) in County Wicklow to the locating of a fast-food restaurant close to their premises on public health grounds, and the progress in implementing the Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013 to 2025. [44118/15]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I ask the Minister for her views on the challenge by a school in Greystones, County Wicklow, to the location of a McDonald's restaurant close to its premises on public health grounds, and for an update on progress in implementing the framework for improved health and well-being by her Department.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State for his response. The context for this, as I outlined in my question, is a secondary school in Greystones which brought a legal challenge to a planning application for a McDonald's which was to be located less than 100 m from the entrance to the school and would have been the closest food outlet to three schools. As the Minister of State would recognise, this...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Childhood Obesity (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: I thank the Minister of State. He and the Minister, as Department of Education and Skills leads, should be more proactive in taking a national policy approach to this, rather than confining the issue to whatever local authorities may decide in each individual area. There is an obesity epidemic and a real challenge in ensuring healthy food options are available to students within the...
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: 9. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will address concerns regarding the new system of allocation of resource and learning supports that is being piloted in 2015; and if she will address the long waiting times for special needs assessment by the National Educational Psychological Service. [43884/15]
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: As the Minister knows, there is real concern in schools across the country as to what system will face them next September and what allocation model will be used to decide on the number of resource hours that individual schools will get. The schools will be making their applications in February or March 2016 for the following September, yet there is a total lack of clarity as to the level of...
- Other Questions: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: Can the Minister give any indication as to what the planned model for the allocation of resources will be this coming September? There are only two or three months left before schools start applying for resource hours for next September and time is running short in terms of providing clarity. It is important that the Minister provide some indication this morning as to whether it is her plan...
- Order of Business (9 Dec 2015)
Charlie McConalogue: The Minister for Education and Skills indicated this morning that the schools admissions Bill will not be brought to the Dáil during the Government's term. Will the Taoiseach explain why that Bill has not been prioritised and, indeed, if his party objected to it? Would the Taoiseach agree that the shelving of the schools admissions Bill represents a failure, particularly for the Labour...