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Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 40: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of posts allocated to primary schools in each county for the teaching of English as an additional language; the number of posts allocated to second level schools in each county for the teaching of English as an additional language and skills; the number of appeals submitted this year by primary schools against a decision by...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 55: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of primary teachers who have applied for probation since September 2011; and the number of primary teachers who successfully completed the probationary process during the last academic year. [2963/12]

Written Answers — Long-Term Illness Scheme: Long-Term Illness Scheme (24 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 682: To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in approving an application for a standing frame under the long-term illness card scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Dublin; the position regarding the apllication; and when a decision will issue. [4006/12]

Written Answers — Medical Aids and Appliances: Medical Aids and Appliances (24 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 690: To ask the Minister for Health if it is now policy or practice to approve only equipment that is deemed life saving under the long-term illness card scheme; and the steps he will take with the Health Service Executive to ensure that equipment such as standing and walking frames and assistive communication technologies are made available in a timely fashion to LTI card holders...

Leaders' Questions (25 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: That is absolutely incompetent.

Written Answers — Industrial Development: Industrial Development (25 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 13: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation while harvesting the State's competitive advantage in computer services and chemicals, if he will detail his plans to diversify in real terms into other sectors in order to reduce dependency on those sectors. [4129/12]

Written Answers — Economic Competitiveness: Economic Competitiveness (25 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 38: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation in view of the fact that the cost base is one of the determinates of our competitiveness, if he will detail the work he has promoted to reduce the costs of borrowing and rental costs to small business including advocating a reduction in the cost of businesses borrowing to reflect the decreased rates from the European...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (25 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 85: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps he will take to address the concerns of a school (details supplied) in Dublin 10. [4437/12]

Written Answers — Social Welfare Benefits: Social Welfare Benefits (25 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 124: To ask the Minister for Social Protection if she will confirm from which principal payment - that is, community employment payment or one-parent family payment - the qualified child increase is being cut; and the date from which it will be cut. [4451/12]

Order of Business (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: It is not agreed. This is a time motion setting out the Order of Business for today. The Water Services (Amendment) Bill is being guillotined today. Given that the House has only managed to deal with two amendments on Report Stage thus far, I suggest an amendment to the Order of Business-----

Order of Business (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Exactly, and if the Leas-Cheann Comhairle allows me one moment, I ask that the Order of Business be amended to change that guillotine to allow for greater debate. This was agreed yesterday but the House can change the Order of Business. I suggest that No. 16 commence at a different stage, either later today or tomorrow and so allow sufficient time for debate of the Water Services...

Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 2: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the reason she did not conduct a review of community employment schemes prior to her decision to cut the training and materials budgets by two thirds; and if she will reinstate the budgets at 2011 levels. [4539/12]

Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Is the Minister aware the cut of 66%, on which she decided in respect of the CE training and materials grant, will decimate community employment schemes and projects as well as those communities which depend on such schemes? I note the Minister has acknowledged this dependence on many schemes. Does the Minister agree the cut actually was made earlier this month? Notwithstanding her...

Community Employment Schemes (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister referred to the reviews, which discovered that there was limited progression. If the level of progression is so low, does she not accept that it is illogical to reduce the training and materials grants? The training grant is particularly important because it is the only hope in the context of ensuring that people are trained. Does she agree that there can be very little...

Social Welfare Code (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: In the review being suggested, will the Minister deal with stakeholders and organisations which represent families who have gone through this? There is a sense that a consultant's letter rather than a GP's letter is all that is accepted. This is an insult to GPs and I would not say their representative bodies are too happy. Will the Minister confirm whether this is the case? Another...

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: The Minister stated this was an important payment in times of financial strain yet her decision in the budget was to cut it. This is a significant cutback as already many families experience a great deal of debt when their children are returning to school. The increase in recent years was to take account of the increase in the cost of getting children to school, and those costs have not...

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Does the Minister believe the cut will result in a drop in the school completion rates? This measure may discourage some children, particularly those in secondary schools, returning to school or discourage their parents allowing their children return to school. The fact that the Minister is paying this allowance to more people is a reflection of the crisis we are in and our unemployment...

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: We agree.

Social Welfare Benefits (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Many of the uniforms need to be changed.

Departmental Expenditure (26 Jan 2012)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Question 41: To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of the work done to date by her on the development of the implementation plan she is committed to deliver to the Troika by the end of March 2012; if she will provide an indication of what it will contain; if she will publish it to allow for debate in Dáil Éireann in advance of submitting it to the Troika; and if she will...