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Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue because this is probably the last week for something like this to be raised. It concerns a situation in a school, the new general data protection regulation, GDPR, and application form 3 for assistive technology. Because of the new rules introduced by the GDPR, the form has been taken off the website of the Department of Education and...

Topical Issue Debate: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: I thank the Minister of State. I am glad to hear that there has been some resolution to this issue and it is planned to place the form on the NCSE website. However, I am very conscious that it is Wednesday and schools are finishing on Friday with most of them taking a half-day. The form needs to be signed by a school principal before it is processed at the next stage. I am looking for...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 135. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a national educational policy with regard to the management of peer sexual assault in post primary education; if one is being drafted; and the location in which it can be accessed. [28171/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Service Provision (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a specialised reading school (details supplied) has been informed it will have no special needs assistant support in September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28176/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 138. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a provision whereby it is accepted policy for schools targeting children with special educational needs to be able to provide special needs assistant support and thus not have their funding for such cut entirely. [28177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Properties (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that has ownership of the site of a campus (details supplied). [28218/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 140. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he had a contingency plan in place when a company (details supplied) went into examinership in January 2018; and if not, the reason therefor [28219/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 141. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his Department will now take back full ownership of a building (details supplied). [28220/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 142. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a more proactive approach was not taken regarding a campus (details supplied) in view of concerns that led to his Department instigating the Thorn investigation. [28221/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Contractors (27 Jun 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 143. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to provide the facilities that the schools in Maynooth need before the new term in September 2018 and subsequent years while the community in Maynooth and its hinterlands are awaiting the school. [28222/18]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Mortgage Lending (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if a bank (details supplied) had a licence to grant mortgages prior to 2008. [29066/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason there has been no capital investment into the printing apprenticeship programme. [28827/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to invest in modern equipment in order to attract new applicants to the printing apprenticeship programme. [28828/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the person or body that granted permission for the postponement of the printing apprenticeship programme; and the grounds on which this was done. [28829/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 147. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale behind the request of Skillnet Ireland, SOLAS and DIT that employers must guarantee an intake of at least three years of apprenticeship candidates per company; and if this stipulation has been enforced in other industries when maintaining an apprenticeship training programme. [28830/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Apprenticeship Programmes (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 148. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the rationale for the postponement of the print media programme in view of the fact that a number of suitable candidates have made their interest known; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that SOLAS is now informing employers that the apprenticeship programme is now suspended for a review that may take several years; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Commission (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 173. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the qualifications required to obtain a post as an examiner correcting the leaving certificate examination papers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29061/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Provision (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 174. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reasoning behind the cancellation of the intermediate welding course in KCETB; and if provisions will be made for students to complete the course elsewhere or at a later date. [29062/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Accommodation (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 176. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that an ASD special class requested by its local SENO has been operating out of temporary prefabricated accommodation for the past year in a school (details supplied); when a grant will be provided for a permanent structure in view of the fact that two suitable buildings have been identified; and if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (3 Jul 2018)

Kathleen Funchion: 199. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is provision for students who miss the leaving certificate examinations due to exceptional circumstances to be allowed to resit these examinations without the necessity of repeating the entire year or waiting a year to do so; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29383/18]