Results 1,061-1,080 of 4,507 for speaker:Pat Deering

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (17 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 1372. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide in tabular form the cutbacks affecting grants to primary schools over the past seven years; if she plans to start restoring some of these grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33915/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Administration (17 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 1373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to restore the minor works grant paid to primary schools; if so, when same will be paid; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a review was due to take place of disadvantaged status for schools over four years ago; her plans to carry out such a review so that some schools can apply for disadvantaged status. [33916/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Funding (17 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 1406. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider reviewing the funding model for third level education with a view to introducing a UK-style student loan system, whereby the money would be paid back to the Exchequer from future earnings, in order to help those families which earn more than the grants threshold but which are not in a position to fund their children's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grant Scheme Eligibility (17 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 1407. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she considers the additional €4,830 allowance to the third level grants threshold for second or subsequent children adequate, considering the average estimated cost is more than €10,000 per year to keep a student in college. [34238/14]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs Staffing (17 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 1436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of both principal and deputy principal allowances based on teacher numbers, her plans to give extra allowances to cover the number of special needs assistants/escorts in schools; the number of SNAs and escorts at primary level; her plans to increase the ancillary grant to schools to take into account the extra administration work...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a person (details supplied) in County Carlow will have a decision on their appeal; and if she will expedite a reply. [35862/14]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes Data (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 272. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of applications received this year on a county basis under the TAMS scheme in the various sectors; the number of approvals to date; and the timescale for dealing with outstanding applications [35899/14]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Services for People with Disabilities (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 337. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the criteria that is used for evaluation for funding under the Tusla programme for residential care centres fo people with disability. [35607/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 349. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a medical card application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [35262/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Card Eligibility (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 350. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding a discretionary medical card in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Carlow. [35263/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the criteria used by HIQA for the evaluation of residential care centres for people with disabilities. [35604/14]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HIQA Inspections (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 372. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HIQA inspections that have been carried out on residential care centres for people with disabilities over the past twelve months; and where these inspections have taken place. [35606/14]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Household Charge Administration (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 505. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the way in which a person who has paid the household charge and is now in receipt of correspondence from the Revenue Commissioners can prove he or she has paid the charge since the organisation responsible for collecting it no longer is answering the telephone or replying to email and the Revenue Commissioners are...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Broadband Service Provision (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 533. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will provide a progress report on the implementation of the plan to increase high speed broadband in 14 locations in County Carlow and over 1,000 nationwide that were identified for improved connections in April 2014. [35911/14]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects Status (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: 547. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide funding for the construction of the proposed Ballincarrig roundabout on the outskirts of Carlow town in view of the design work having been undertaken, lands acquired and the project ready to commence. [35900/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: I welcome the Minister and his officials to the committee. Regarding the Food Harvest 2020 targets, 74% of the recommendations have been achieved or substantive action has been taken in relation to them. How does the Department quantify what has been achieved so far, considering that we are now six years from 2020? There has been a great deal of discussion and debate on the beef situation...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: I have a brief question on a different area completely. Last spring twelvemonth we had difficulties with the fodder prices and so on. There were almost 1,100 calls to the Department on the issue. How does that compare to the past year? How does it compare to previous years? Traditionally, farmers would have been reluctant to ring the Department when such a situation arose. How have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: I have a brief question in regard to the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS. There appears to be a significant backlog of applications in the system, going back months or even to last year. What is the reason for this? I presume the funding is there. Is there a problem with the application process or have the criteria changed? Can the process be streamlined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (23 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: The application process seems to be very bureaucratic. This is what I am hearing back. The Minister said himself that many approvals have not resulted in drawdowns. Not just in the dairy sector, but also in the sheep fencing/mobile handling equipment scheme, for example; from what I hear back, this is particularly bad. There seems to be an awful lot of red tape between the results and the...

Order of Business (24 Sep 2014)

Pat Deering: As the Minister well knows, the south east of the country faces a difficulty from an unemployment point of view. One of the best ways to try to sort out that issue is through education. As the Minister is probably aware, Carlow IT and Waterford IT have done much work in proposing the formation of a technological university. Will the Minister give me a timescale on when the technological...