Results 781-800 of 6,463 for speaker:Carol Nolan

Topical Issue Debate: Compensation Schemes (7 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I thank the Minister for his response but I am extremely disappointed. I have met a group of sex abuse survivors, the Creagh Lane group in Limerick, whose lives have been destroyed. We need action here. We must defend those people and make sure that they get justice. The letters that were sent to the people who were claiming that they were abused were sent during the Dáil's summer...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Nitrates Action Programme Implementation (7 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to extend the transitional arrangements for the nitrates directive, in order that their eventual discontinuation can be negotiated within the scope of the full review on the basis of introducing additional measures to encourage the use of organic fertilisers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11920/17]

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion [Private Members] (8 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Leas-Cheann Comhairle as ucht an deis chun labhairt ar an ábhar fíor-thábhachtach seo a bhaineann le oideachas speisíalta. I thank Fianna Fáil for bringing forward the motion. While my party broadly supports the sentiment behind the motion, we have concerns with aspects of it. As the rapporteur of the committee on the issue, I am...

Education (Disadvantage Committee) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move:Bill entitled an Act to amend the Education Act 1998 to make provision whereby the Minister for Education and Skills shall establish an Educational Disadvantage Committee to advise him or her on policies and strategies to be adopted to identify and correct educational disadvantage. The purpose of this Bill is to re-instate the Educational Disadvantage Committee under the Education Act...

Education (Disadvantage Committee) Bill 2017: First Stage (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

National Educational Psychological Service: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann” and substitute the following: “recognises that: — the National Educational Psychology Service (NEPS) is drastically understaffed, with 619 primary and post-primary schools across the State without access to a NEPS psychologist for the purposes of carrying out an assessment; —...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if consideration will be given to allocating additional staff to the audit committee of ETBs in order to ensure that the unit is sufficiently resourced to undertake the extensive workload in an efficient and timely manner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12461/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the new resource allocation model will include an appeals mechanism; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12465/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Data (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 121. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the circular for the new resource allocation model will be sent to schools and published on his Department's website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12475/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 112. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the safeguards that are in place to protect the intellectual property developed in third level institutions in the context of spin out companies and other commercialisation of research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12466/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 114. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a legislative requirement on a shareholder of a spin out company established by a third level institution, that is also a member of staff, board or governing body of the same institution, to declare their interest in the shareholding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12468/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 115. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is a legal requirement that all third level institutions must have a policy governing the conflict of interest of members of staff, board members or members of a governing authority generally and more specifically in the case of spin out companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 116. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a legal framework in place to ensure that staff or those in paid positions of authority within third level institutions that have direct access to and knowledge of research and intellectual property of the third level institution are prevented from making personal gain through the sale or development of the research or intellectual...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Intellectual Property Protocol (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is normal practice that paid members of staff of third level institutions would become shareholders of companies or other structures established to exploit the commercialisation of the research of the institution in which they are employed; if such shareholdings would be in conflict of interest of the position of employment within the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Knowledge Transfer Programme (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 113. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a list of all spin out companies established by third level institutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12467/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Research Funding Applications (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if it is a requirement for all State research funding that any potential conflict of interest is disclosed at the time of application; the circumstances in which funding will be refused on grounds of conflict of interest; the number of applications that have been declined due to concerns in relation to conflicts of interest over the past ten...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 119. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the data used in establishing the criteria for DEIS schools took account of the number of persons on rent supplement or other housing payments in a given area given the number of persons eligible for social housing who are currently in the private rental market due to shortage of social housing supply; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools Scheme (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 120. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the total funding for DEIS under the plan for 2017; the total spend pro rata per pupil; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12474/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Industrial Relations (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 122. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will ensure that no teacher will be made redundant in ASTI as a result of the dispute with his Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12476/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Public Service Pay Commission (9 Mar 2017)

Carol Nolan: 123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if ASTI will be invited to form part of the talks on the new pay agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12477/17]