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Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 386: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason her Department only provides a summer education programme, normally in July, to children with autism, but excludes other children with special needs, specifically those with Downs syndrome, ADHD or dyspraxia; if she will confirm that all special schools here have taken up the summer programme in recent years; and if she...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 387: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the training special needs assistants have in respect of the provision of ABA within the new special classes that she is establishing here; if it is specifically referred to in their contract of employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10148/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 388: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of parents her Department recently corresponded with in respect of a proposal from her Department to remove the home tuition grant while offering those parents a place for their child in the new special classes for children with autism that are being established or have been established; the number of the parents in...

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 389: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of the 270 special classes for children with autism which have been sanctioned by her Department currently open; when she expects the remaining number of classes to be open; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10150/08]

Written Answers — Early Childhood Education: Early Childhood Education (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 396: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if there are plans to recognise the pre-school education sector as part of the wider education system which comes under the remit of her Department, in order that pre-school teachers would be paid by the Government under fair salary scales representing their qualifications and experience; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Home Tuition: Home Tuition (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 413: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the reason, in view of the issue of her Department underpaying the home tuition grant to parents of children taught by qualified teachers at the ELI schools in Dublin, Wicklow and Galway for a number of years and further to her reply to Parliamentary Question No. 508 of 27 November 2007, her Department will not go through its...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 415: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of primary schools in each county that will lose a teacher due to her Department's failure to honour a commitment in the programme for Government to reduce the staffing schedule for 2008 and 2009 from 27 to 26 pupils. [10475/08]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 416: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the names of primary schools in each county that will not be permitted to appoint a teacher that would otherwise have been entitled to do so had her Department honoured the commitment in the programme for Government to reduce the staffing schedule for 2008 and 2009 from 27 to 26 pupils. [10476/08]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 417: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will commence section 30 of the Teaching Council Act 2001; and the arrangements she will put in place to ensure that schools have access to trained substitute teachers. [10477/08]

Written Answers — Special Educational Needs: Special Educational Needs (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 418: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a review of the general allocation model for special education posts in primary schools has commenced; and if so, when she expects such a review to be complete. [10478/08]

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 419: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she has plans to change her Department's instructions that principals should not be assigned to special education posts. [10479/08]

Written Answers — Schools Refurbishment: Schools Refurbishment (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 420: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of schools that have applied to her Department for emergency funding to date in 2008 to carry out urgent repairs and renovations on school buildings. [10480/08]

Written Answers — Educational Disadvantage: Educational Disadvantage (11 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 421: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a review of the DEIS programme has commenced; and if so when she expects such a review to be complete. [10481/08]

Leaders' Questions (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: The Ministers have it for two weeks.

Programmes for Government. (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: Question 17: To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the implementation of An Agreed Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10618/08]

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: I wish to share time with Deputy Ulick Burke. I endorse the Labour Party motion and I congratulate the party for putting it on the Order of Business. There is something entirely dysfunctional about an education system where the State defines a school as a charity, yet that is exactly what is happening. In information that I recently received from the Minister for Finance, 420 schools,...

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: They must be related.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: On a point of order, it is a longstanding precedent in this House that when a Minister of State reads from a script, it is provided. Can we have a copy?

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: What about St. Patrick's Day? The Government could start there.

Capitation Grants: Motion (Resumed) (12 Mar 2008)

Brian Hayes: What about the proposal on class sizes for under nine year olds?