Results 481-500 of 2,177 for speaker:Kathleen Funchion in 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (21 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 609. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if an outreach worker has been appointed to a refuge (details supplied) to specifically deal with County Carlow; and if so, when this post will be commenced. [21848/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Services Funding (21 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 610. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if additional funding has been provided for a refuge (details supplied). [21849/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 24. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the terms and conditions for the granting of an overage exemption for children within the ECCE scheme to apply for an additional year prior to commencing primary school; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19799/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Supply (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to abolish the five-day rule regarding teacher substitution (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22481/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a school (details supplied) has been notified that it must close its doors completely and vacate its temporary site on 31 January 2020 and a company has instructed that no extension of this date should be granted; if his attention has been further drawn to the unnecessary stress this is causing...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Data (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the yearly process and timeline for setting and agreeing the national allocation of special needs assistants, SNAs; the person or body who leads the process; and the reason for the delay and the change of date for the announcement of the allocation of SNAs for 2019-2020. [22799/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the criteria for a child with additional needs to access a special needs assistant, SNA, in cases in which there are varying levels of need among children in one or various classrooms in one school; the method used to decide the way in which the time of a SNA is divided among several children; the process by which it is decided in a school in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the process for special needs assistants, SNAs, who seek further employment if they are made redundant from a previous job or if their contract has ceased; and the purpose of panels within that process. [22801/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 169. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his attention has been drawn to the requirement for those that have been given refugee status declaration to provide their national passport as part of an application for citizenship through naturalisation; and if his views on same in view of the fact that international protection applicants must surrender their national...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Occupational Therapy Data (28 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 286. To ask the Minister for Health the number of occupational therapists working in the early years department in Kilcreene Hospital, Kilkenny; if there is a shortage of occupational therapists in the hospital; if so, his plans to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22738/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 65. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he is satisfied with the current section 29 appeal system for schools; the number of appeals recorded as successful under the process of appeals; the number of complaints made in relation to the appeals process itself; his plans to review the appeals system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23096/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 May 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 66. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of appeals lodged to date under the section 29 appeals process at a school (details supplied); and the number of appeals accepted. [23097/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Pupil-Teacher Ratio (11 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 243. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of additional teaching positions which would be required in primary schools to restore the appointment figures for the third and fourth mainstream teacher to the level they were at in 2010, that is, 49 and 81. [23512/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (11 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 244. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools which had a teaching staff of one, two or three teachers in 2010 and which have since closed following the increase in the appointment figures. [23513/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Data (11 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 245. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary schools which have total teacher numbers (details supplied). [23514/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: International Protection (11 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 333. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 125 of 15 May 2019, if a passport will be returned to such a person upon request. [23511/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (13 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide compensation to qualified teachers who have returned from working abroad and have been paid on a further education basis since their return due to not being registered with the Teaching Council through no fault of their own as a result of a backlog of applications with the Teaching Council; his views on whether teachers who...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Domestic Violence Refuges Provision (13 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 191. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs further to Parliamentary Question No. 609 of 21 May 2019, the reason no specific budget for counselling services is being provided for a refuge (details supplied); the alternative sources of funding she recommends the refuge to apply for in order that it can continue to provide critical and essential services to vulnerable women and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits Waiting Times (13 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 199. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in the medical review in social welfare cases such as carer’s allowance, domiciliary care allowance, invalidity pension and disability in which it is taking up to 26 weeks for the review to take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24697/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staff (18 Jun 2019)

Kathleen Funchion: 169. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason for cutting the number of special needs assistants, SNAs, from a school (details supplied) from 3.5 to 3.2 for September 2019; if he and the National Council for Special Education, NCSE, will urgently review the proposal in order that incoming children for September 2019 in need of vital physical, communication and behavioural...